Its less of open debate would say, and although superposition [1] is interesting, as a way to explain power of some effects, it is clear they are right now closer to Stochastic Parrots than AGI.
Why do I say that? Because you can trivially beat most guardrails, simply by encoding your prompt in base64 for example. :-) Just word matching...no real understanding.
[1] https://chrisclay.substack.com/p/what-is-superposition-in-ne...
What is "real understanding", and what question can we ask ChatGPT to determine whether it has it?