Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm. - Cal Newport

Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade

CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.

Evan Hubinger on Twitter / X

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to. https://t.co/QAIHiFP3QZ— Evan Hubinger (@EvanHub) September 9, 2026

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by the philosopher Nick Bostrom. It explores how superintelligence could be created and what its features and motivations might be. It argues that superintelligence, if created, would be difficult to control, and that it could take over the world in order to accomplish its goals. The book also presents strategies to help make superintelligences whose goals benefit humanity. It was particularly influential for raising concerns about existential risk from artificial intelligence.

I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence

I’ve often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn’t really know why I doubted it.

Personal Superintelligence

Explore Meta's vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfilling lives. Insights from Mark Zuckerberg on the future of AI and human empowerment.

Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence

Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind’s greatest challenges.

Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”

II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

AI progress won’t stop at human-level. Hundreds of millions of AGIs could automate AI research, compressing a decade of algorithmic progress (5+ OOMs) into ≤1 year. We would rapidly go from human-level to vastly superhuman AI systems. The power—and the peril—of superintelligence would be dramatic. Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that

Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies

What might a superintelligence arcology be like?

Daron Acemoglu on Twitter / X

First question on AI.Is the problem superintelligence or distorted intelligence?This is a question I tried to address in this piece. I can add the following additional comment here.I believe the debate is being obfuscated by equating goal-driven, autonomous behavior with… https://t.co/pgoZ6tMaQ7— Daron Acemoglu (@DAcemogluMIT) September 29, 2026

Extropia's Children, Chapter 7: The Inferno of the Nerds

What really is the fabled AI x-risk? Will our meddling with artificial intelligence cause us to inadvertently create a dread superintelligent godlike entity which will destroy us all? Or are there other AI risks we should worry about more?

Building Political Superintelligence

Amidst fears of dystopia, a blueprint for how we use AI to reinvent the way we govern ourselves

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [video] (45 mins)

Superintelligence is a dragon

What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI