# Guides

> Six short, plain-English guides, read in order.

1. [What is superintelligence?](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/what-is-superintelligence.md): What people mean by the word, and why it’s taken seriously.
2. [AI, AGI and ASI: the difference](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/ai-agi-and-asi.md): Three terms that get mixed up constantly, sorted in one page.
3. [How AI progress is measured](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/how-ai-progress-is-measured.md): Benchmarks, what they test, and why they stop being useful.
4. [Scaling, simply](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/scaling-simply.md): Why more compute and data kept making models better.
5. [Alignment: keeping AI on our side](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/alignment.md): The problem of getting powerful systems to do what we intend.
6. [Fast or slow takeoff?](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/fast-or-slow-takeoff.md): The debate over how quickly AGI could become superintelligence.