Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia just won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing, a $250,000 award recognizing his creation of Apache Spark. The man who helped build a $134 billion company dropped a bold take in his interview with TechCrunch: 'AGI is here already. It's just not in a form that we appreciate.' He argued we should stop judging AI by human standards, pointing out that AI systems process information differently than people do. It's a convenient position for someone whose company's valuation depends on AI being a big deal. But Zaharia got specific about security. He called out OpenClaw, a popular AI agent, as 'a security nightmare.' The problem? It's designed to mimic a trusted human assistant. People hand it passwords. They stay logged into their bank accounts. 'Yeah, it's not a little human there,' he said. That's the real tension in the agent space right now. The more useful these tools become, the more access we give them, and the more damage they can do when something goes wrong. Zaharia is donating his prize money to charity and heading back to his other job as an associate professor at UC Berkeley. What he's actually excited about is using AI to automate research, Sakana's AI Scientist style, things like simulating molecular changes and scanning beyond text into radio and microwave data. Students are already doing it. That's where the real impact will be, not in debates over whether we've hit AGI.