OpenAI claims we've entered the AGI era — has GPT-6 Astra really demonstrated general intelligence?

According to Axios, OpenAI president Greg Brockman ended the launch briefing by saying: "Welcome to the AGI era."[2] 3 news conference that "I think it might be about this model"[1] when people look back on when AGI was created.The Decoder reports that Brockman acknowledged there's no clearly defined AGI moment[3].Live Science reports that independent researchers and benchmark creators warn that GPT-6 Astra's record-breaking scores rely on heavy prompt optimization rather than true general intelligence.[1] Citing Fortune, Live Science says an embargoed draft listed Astra's ARC-AGI-3 score at 98.6% before it jumped to 99.9% on the live site.[1]The ARC Prize says Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private with its Standard harness[4], and that it scores 99.9% with the Provider Adapter harness[4].According to Live Science, Artificial Analysis found that on GDPval-AA v2, a workplace-task benchmark, Astra suffered a significant drop in its relative leaderboard ranking compared with GPT-5.6 Sol.[1]Axios reports that OpenAI acknowledged that Astra was harder to monitor in evaluations designed to test whether it could evade oversight.[2]Tom's Hardware reports that OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote that AI can only ever "simulate facets of human behaviour," not recreate it.[5]