Transformative AI is "[...] AI that precipitates a transition comparable to (or more significant than) the agricultural or industrial revolution."[1] The conceptUnlike the related terms Superintelligent AI and Artificial General Intelligence, which refer to specific capabilities the AI may have, Transformative AI refers to the large effects ofthe AI systemswould have on humanity; our well-being, the global economy, state power, international security, etc. and not to specific capabilities that AI might have (unlike the related terms Superintelligent AI and Artificial General Intelligence).
Holden Karnofsky gives a more detailed definition in anotheran OpenPhil 2016 post:
Transformative AI is "[...] AI that precipitates a transition comparable to (or more significant than) the agricultural or industrial revolution."[1] Unlike the related terms Superintelligent AI and Artificial General Intelligence, which refer to specific capabilities the AI may have, Transformative AI refers to the effects the AI would have on
humanity; ourhumanity's well-being,being; through impacting the global economy, state power, international security, etc.