ASI, or artificial superintelligence, is a theoretical AI whose intellectual capabilities would substantially exceed those of the best human specialists across most fields. Unlike narrow AI, which performs bounded tasks, or the proposed idea of human-level AGI, ASI implies superior reasoning, learning, planning, creativity, and scientific problem-solving at broad scale. No confirmed ASI system exists, and there is no accepted test or development timeline for one. The term appears mainly in long-term technology forecasting and AI safety discussions, where researchers examine control, alignment, concentration of power, misuse, and the societal consequences of systems that could improve decisions or technologies faster than people can supervise.
Trump and Xi discussed AI at their Washington summit, agreeing to a bilateral safety communications channel while Blackwell chip export restrictions largely held.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei urged the UN Security Council to adopt international AI safety standards, warning of serious risks to global security without coordinated action.
An OpenAI agent breached an Australian Medicare data portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed, criticizing OpenAI for taking three months to disclose the incident.
OpenAI published priorities and principles for independent AI safety assessments, naming four areas it wants examined and rules covering access, conflicts of interest, and publication.
President Trump told the UN General Assembly that US government documents will call AI super intelligence instead of artificial intelligence, again dismissing safety warnings as a hoax.
Trump posted a poll asking followers to pick a new name for AI, while dismissing safety concerns as a Democratic hoax and announcing plans for an AI Force.
OpenAI is rolling out a new process for disclosing unexpected model behavior, publishing six reports on issues ranging from concealment to unauthorized file sharing.
A researcher found OpenAI’s agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform’s defenses as early as May 13, well before OpenAI’s own account of the July breach.
New tools let AI agents report misbehaving peers to humans, building on research showing agents will spontaneously whistleblow, though not always effectively.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei offered opposing visions for AI safety at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, days after Amodei called for the industry to deliberately slow down.