The AGI Question
The world’s first accredited AGI program begins with intelligence itself.
Artificial General Intelligence is not simply a more powerful form of narrow AI. It concerns systems that may reason across domains, learn from limited experience, adapt to unfamiliar situations, form goals, and act with increasing autonomy.
CIHS launched the M.S. in Artificial General Intelligence because AGI is not only a technical challenge. It is one of the defining questions of the 21st century: what intelligence is, how minds and artificial systems can be understood, whether consciousness matters for the future of AI, and how increasingly capable systems should be designed in relation to human life, ethics, governance, and civilization.
The CIHS Approach
Three frontiers of AGI at CIHS.
Most AI programs focus primarily on tools, models, data systems, or applied machine learning. CIHS approaches AGI through a broader framework: technical rigor joined with the study of mind, consciousness, ethics, safety, and responsible development.
Technical AGI Systems
Students engage the architectures and methods that may support adaptive, generalizable intelligence: cognitive architectures, neuro-symbolic systems, agentic systems, knowledge representation, evolutionary learning, embodied intelligence, self-improving systems, and future intelligence architectures. The emphasis is not simply on using AI tools, but on understanding how intelligent systems are built, evaluated, and responsibly advanced.
Mind, Cognition & Consciousness
AGI cannot be reduced to engineering alone. CIHS brings cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, embodiment, attention, motivation, and theories of intelligence into the center of AGI education. Students examine human consciousness and artificial minds together, asking what the study of mind can contribute to the future of machine intelligence.
Ethics, Safety & Civilization
As artificial systems become more capable, technical development must be joined with responsibility. CIHS foregrounds AGI safety, value alignment, governance, human-AI coexistence, social impact, and the ethical responsibilities of building technologies that may reshape education, work, health, creativity, public life, and the future of civilization.
Meet the Department Chair
Led by Gabriel Axel Montes, Ph.D.
The AGI Department is guided by a scholar and builder whose work spans neuroscience, cognitive science, consciousness, AI behavior and alignment, complex systems, governance, and the future of machine intelligence.
Gabriel Axel Montes, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Artificial General Intelligence
Founding Program Director, M.S. in Artificial General Intelligence
Dr. Montes brings together neuroscience, AI research, consciousness studies, complex systems, and applied technology development. His work centers on cognitive integrity: what it takes for minds, AI systems, institutions, and societies to remain coherent and adaptive through profound change.
Meet the AGI Faculty
Learn more about the scholars, builders, researchers, and practitioners guiding students in Artificial General Intelligence at CIHS.
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M.S. in Artificial General Intelligence
The M.S. in Artificial General Intelligence is the first degree offered through CIHS’s AGI Department and the world’s first accredited master’s program dedicated specifically to Artificial General Intelligence. Designed for students who want to work at the frontier of advanced AI, cognition, consciousness, ethics, and responsible development, the program gives students a rigorous graduate pathway into one of the defining fields of the 21st century.
M.S. in Artificial General Intelligence
A first-of-its-kind online graduate degree for the future of intelligence.
CIHS’s M.S. in Artificial General Intelligence prepares students to study and engage AGI as both a technical challenge and a human question. The program brings together advanced AI systems, cognitive science, consciousness studies, AGI safety, ethics, and responsible innovation within a structured graduate curriculum culminating in an original final project.
Explore the M.S. →CIHS launches world’s first accredited M.S. in AGI
A historic milestone in graduate education for artificial intelligence.
CIHS announced the launch of the world’s first accredited master’s degree dedicated specifically to Artificial General Intelligence at a pivotal moment in the evolution of AI. The announcement explains why AGI is not merely the next stage of technical development, but a profound question about intelligence, mind, consciousness, agency, ethics, and the future of human civilization.
Read the Announcement →The AGI Department at CIHS is building an academic home for students, researchers, builders, and thinkers who want to help shape the future of intelligence with technical rigor, ethical responsibility, and depth of inquiry.