Guides

Six short guides. Read in order, or dip in. Each takes about five minutes.

1. What is superintelligence?

   What people mean by the word, and why it’s taken seriously.

   Guide 1, 5 min read

2. AI, AGI and ASI: the difference

   Three terms that get mixed up constantly, sorted in one page.

   Guide 2, 5 min read

3. How AI progress is measured

   Benchmarks, what they test, and why they stop being useful.

   Guide 3, 5 min read

4. Scaling, simply

   Why more compute and data kept making models better.

   Guide 4, 5 min read

5. Alignment: keeping AI on our side

   The problem of getting powerful systems to do what we intend.

   Guide 5, 5 min read

6. Fast or slow takeoff?

   The debate over how quickly AGI could become superintelligence.

   Guide 6, 5 min read