Are Superintelligence Labs Going to Replace Humans?
Artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk’s Grok, and Apple’s Apple intelligence have been massive steps in the move to implement superintelligence into our daily lives. However, when did this all start, what is superintelligence, and more importantly, can superintelligence replace humans entirely?
The start of AI begins in the 1950s, when the Dartmouth Workshop, which was organized by John McCarthy, and american computer scientist, introduced AI as a field of science. Over the decades, research for artificial intelligence started out basic with having computers do problem-solving, basic neural networks(having an AI learn to identify something) and symbolic methods (symbols humans use like the plus sign or a semicolon). In the 1970s, as advancements in computers began occurring, scientists used the improved technology to have AI start to try and mimic decision-making and knowledge of humans. Ten years later, “machine learning,” which is the development of an artificial intelligence through adapting to situations like the watch history of someone on YouTube and adapting to make an algorithm based on what the user has watched.
The history of superintelligence derives from the idea of beings that are above humans, like gods, but over the centuries, the term has evolved to a new purpose. However, artificial superintelligence, or ASI, is still only an idea and has been only an idea from the introduction of artificial intelligence being a field of science.
As artificial intelligence gets better at generating text, images, and answers to prompts from humans, ASI will begin to rise, replacing over 40% of jobs according to the World Economic Forum or WEF. However, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerburg has already invested $14.3 billion to build an AI research lab to research ASI. However, apart from ASI, artificial general intelligence, or AGI is also very close to being perfected. An example of AGI can be Google’s Gemini AI with using websites to make a quick summary, or OpenAI’s ChatGPT with using prompts given by users to generate text or images. Even though AGI is not as capable to replace jobs as ASI, it still can match or surpass human capabilities in answering questions or making images. With how AGI, ASI, and AI as a whole is in the present day, artificial intelligence isn’t at the level where it is a major threat due to the presence of limitations set by humans to have humans keep jobs, and the limitations of technology due to some aspects of AI not having succeeded.
Sources:
https://www.tableau.com/data-insights/ai/history
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markminevich/2024/10/18/artificial-superintelligence-transforming-creativity-and-jobs/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/meta-scale-ai-super-intelligence-lab.html
