Erick has been a tech journalist for top media brands in India for over eight years, specializing in reviews and multimedia content, and extensively covering Web 3.0, electric vehicles, and the tech startup landscape in India.
While you're using AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to write emails, generate pictures and automate tasks, the race to achieve artificial general intelligence has already intensified. Meanwhile, Big Tech CEOs likeAI is moving fast: Terms like AI, AGI, and ASI sound similar, but represent totally different levels of capability.
The AI you use today is"narrow," as it's trained for specific tasks like text or video generation, and requires human intervention. AGI would give machines human-level cognitive abilities, which mainly is the ability to think, learn, make decisions, and solve problems without specific training for each task. ASI goes further, aiming to surpass humans at practically everything. Experts say it would make its own decisions and improve itself without human input. AI is already replacing thousands of jobs, experts say AGI and ASI could pose an even bigger threat. So, what exactly is ASI? And should we be wary of it?Superintelligence is a hypothetical AI system that surpasses human intelligence across every domain. From writing code and generating videos to performing surgery and driving cars, it would do everything simultaneously, something the current AI systems lack. The AI tools we use hallucinate, andwith massive data to perform tasks in a specific way. ASI would find solutions to complex problems with better reasoning and the knowledge of context. Philosopher Nick Bostrom, who popularized the term, defines superintelligence as"any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest." Current AI systems need humans to improve them: Engineers work on their code, feed the models vast amounts of data to improve their predictions and responses. ASI, on the other hand, could improve itself. It could hypothetically rewrite its own algorithms, design capabilities, and control systems without instructions. It's unclear if superintelligence is possible or not. However, if machines would become smarter than humans and improve themselves, some say thatalready, as investors pour in billions of dollars into companies looking to build it. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever left the company in 2024, and founded a startup, warning it could pose an"existential risk," adding that it's"conceivable" that AI would exceed expert skill level in most domains within 10 years.While it is believed that humans will be able to achieve more and solve complex problems with superintelligence, as it could be"thewill ever invent," the risks look bigger than the advantages. Generative AI has already started replacing humans at various job roles, which could lead to huge economic implications. Some believe entire professions could vanish because of ASI, potentially leaving billions unemployed. Job loss is one issue, but we also face"existential risks" as well. If machines start thinking and take control of systems on their own, it could misalign with humanity and pose threats ranging from"national security risk to potential human extinction." In October 2025, several prominent figuresand Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, among others. The fact that the very people behind companies looking to develop ASI are advocating for a cautious approach, it does show the level of risk superintelligence poses for humans.
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