Concept dictionary
Artificial Superintelligence
Artificial superintelligence is a speculative concept for an AI system that would exceed human capability across most or all cognitive domains of interest.
- Review state
- Reviewed in POC
- Freshness
- Current
- Version
- 2
Also called
- Artificial Superintelligence
- ASI
Remember it this wayASI is a speculative beyond-human scenario, not present capability evidence.
In plain language
ASI discussions concern a possible system beyond both current narrow AI and proposed human-level general intelligence. The term describes a scenario, not an established technology category.
Why it matters
The concept influences long-range safety, governance, and investment debates, but it should not be used to blur the evidence about systems that exist now.
Example
A policy exercise considers how institutions might respond if a future system surpassed expert human performance across research, strategy, engineering, and persuasion.
Common misconception
ASI is not an observed next product release or a settled prediction. Timelines, feasibility, and even definitions remain uncertain.
Related terms
Sources
- International AI Safety Report 2026internationally backed scientific assessment of advanced general-purpose AI capabilities and risks; useful context for keeping superintelligence claims explicitly hypothetical and uncertain.
- Kim et al., The Road to Artificial SuperIntelligence: A Comprehensive Survey of Superalignmentresearch survey defining ASI as hypothetical and reviewing the associated alignment literature; included as a scholarly source, not evidence that ASI exists.
Learn more
- Treat ASI as a [[scenario|Scenario]] and preserve [[epistemic-humility|Epistemic Humility]].