http://udacity.blogspot.com/2012/06/sebastian-thrun-udacity-ceo-will.html

While Sebastian is not an AGI researcher his reputation in the broad AI community is high due to him largely making self-driving cars happen (and those are autonomous AI systems, even if narrow). I think his opinion of AGI might worth asking (he has a high position in Google's X-labs)

He is also interesting from due to a number of innovations he partook in that are likely to be pretty historical

• Self-driving cars
• Formation of Udacity is likely to be remembered as the "event that changed college-level online education"
• I don't know how much he is responsible for this directly, but Google X is making headway with pretty futuristic HUD devices that are likely to significantly increase human-computer integration