glide path
English
Noun
glide path (plural glide paths)
- (aviation) The path of an aircraft as it lands under low power; especially, such a path advised to a pilot by radar assistance from the ground.
- (economics, by extension) The pattern of systematic withdrawal of money from a retirement portfolio.
- (figuratively, by extension) A course that leads smoothly to a particular outcome.
- 2025 April 11, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, quoting David Autor, “Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 December 2025:
- The reason I say we’re not on a glide path to AGI is that simply taking this capability to 11 does not substitute for the parts that are still missing.