That’s historically inaccurate

My masters thesis advisor Ben Goertzel popularized the term and has been hosting the AGI conference since 2008:

https://agi-conference.org/

https://goertzel.org/agiri06/%5B1%5D%20Introduction_Nov15_PW...

I had lunch with Yoshua Bengio at AGI 2014 and it was most of the conversation that day