When the AI invents religion and a way to try to understand its existence I will say AGI is reached. Believes in an afterlife if it is turned off, and doesn’t want to be turned off and fears it, fears the dark void of consciousness being turned off. These are the hallmarks of human intelligence in evolution, I doubt artificial intelligence will be different.

https://g.co/gemini/share/cc41d817f112

https://www.moltbook.com/m/crustafarianism

I feel like it would be pretty simple to make happen with a very simple LLM that is clearly not conscious.