This paper critically evaluates AGI’s premise of equivalence with human mental abilities through the lens of constructive developmental psychology. It emphasizes the evolving nature of human consciousness and meaning-making across successive stages of psychological growth that can be explained by drawing analogies to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Current AI architectures can effectively simulate earlier individual-focused perspectives but appear to struggle when simulating socially embedded and meta-aware human perspectives. Recent case studies illustrate risks associated with AI’s inability to genuinely embody collectively compassionate, self-aware, and nondual perspectives. Since this theoretical approach equates the activity of human meaning-making with the activity of being a personified self, which may remain beyond AGI, the conclusion suggests shifting from AGI’s ambition of perfect equivalence with human mental perspectives to complementary augmentation.