After deep diving the technology and really observing how it gets made—lots and lots and lots of human intervention needed—I consider "AGI" just a technocratic superstition, and probably a psyop to scare the shit out of everyday people.

This civilization collects mountains of data, though, and AI is very good at querying large databases to inferring mathematically probable answers to a question, such as "What's the next most likely word in this sentence" or "Which of these citizens fits a criminal profile?"

The implications of a technocratic society with a centralized AI feeding off gobs of data produced by the plebs are unpleasant, to say the least.