# Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)
**Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI):**
[The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence](https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html) (Part 1 of this post)
[The Fermi Paradox](https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html) – Why don’t we see any signs of alien life?
[How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars](https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html) – A post I got to work on with Elon Musk and one that reframed my mental picture of the future.
Or for something totally different and yet somehow related, [Why Procrastinators Procrastinate](https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html)
And here’s [Year 1 of Wait But Why](https://www.amazon.com/Wait-But-Why-Year-One-ebook/dp/B00TXYJOZG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\&ie=UTF8\&qid=1424988766\&sr=1-1\&keywords=tim+urban) on an ebook.
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**Sources**
If you’re interested in reading more about this topic, check out the articles below or one of these three books:
**The most rigorous and thorough look at the dangers of AI:**\
Nick Bostrom – [Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199678111/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\&camp=1789\&creative=390957\&creativeASIN=0199678111\&linkCode=as2\&tag=wabuwh00-20\&linkId=LBOTX2G2R72P5EUA)
**The best overall overview of the whole topic and fun to read:**\
James Barrat – [Our Final Invention](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQYAWRY/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\&camp=1789\&creative=390957\&creativeASIN=B00CQYAWRY\&linkCode=as2\&tag=wabuwh00-20\&linkId=3SF7IUFSRCKH7C4J)
**Controversial and a lot of fun. Packed with facts and charts and mind-blowing future projections:**\
Ray Kurzweil – [The Singularity is Near
](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143037889/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\&camp=1789\&creative=390957\&creativeASIN=0143037889\&linkCode=as2\&tag=wabuwh00-20\&linkId=54Q62R5PYJBEENTP)
**Articles and Papers:**\
J. Nils Nilsson – [The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements
](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521122937/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\&camp=1789\&creative=390957\&creativeASIN=0521122937\&linkCode=as2\&tag=wabuwh00-20\&linkId=QIJQME4U3J2KZRRY)Steven Pinker – [How the Mind Works
](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491514965/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\&camp=1789\&creative=390957\&creativeASIN=1491514965\&linkCode=as2\&tag=wabuwh00-20\&linkId=NJ47RPDRBVZA6QPU)Vernor Vinge – [The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era](https://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html)\
Ernest Davis – [Ethical Guidelines for A Superintelligence
](http://www.cs.nyu.edu/faculty/davise/papers/Bostrom.pdf)Nick Bostrom – [How Long Before Superintelligence?](http://www.nickbostrom.com/superintelligence.html)\
Vincent C. Müller and Nick Bostrom – [Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion](http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf)\
Moshe Y. Vardi – [Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future
](http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/1/144824-artificial-intelligence-past-and-future/fulltext)Russ Roberts, EconTalk – [Bostrom Interview](http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/12/nick_bostrom_on.html) and [Bostrom Follow-Up
](http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/12/bostrom_follow-.html)Stuart Armstrong and Kaj Sotala, MIRI – [How We’re Predicting AI—or Failing To
](https://intelligence.org/files/PredictingAI.pdf)Susan Schneider – [Alien Minds
](http://schneiderwebsite.com/Susan_Schneiders_Website/Research_files/12%20Schneider%20Newest-Alien%20Minds_1.pdf)Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig – [Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
](http://amzn.to/1mHo9dG)Theodore Modis – [The Singularity Myth](http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/Kurzweil.htm)\
Gary Marcus – [Hyping Artificial Intelligence, Yet Again](http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/hyping-artificial-intelligence-yet-again)\
Steven Pinker – [Could a Computer Ever Be Conscious?](http://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/100-FYS-F15/Readings/Pinker,%20ConsciousComputers.pdf)\
Carl Shulman – [Omohundro’s “Basic AI Drives” and Catastrophic Risks](https://intelligence.org/files/BasicAIDrives.pdf)\
World Economic Forum – [Global Risks 2015](http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_2015_Report15.pdf)\
John R. Searle – [What Your Computer Can’t Know](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/oct/09/what-your-computer-cant-know/)\
Jaron Lanier – [One Half a Manifesto](http://edge.org/conversation/one-half-a-manifesto)\
Bill Joy – [Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us](http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html)\
Kevin Kelly – [Thinkism](http://kk.org/thetechnium/2008/09/thinkism/)\
Paul Allen – [The Singularity Isn’t Near](http://www.technologyreview.com/view/425733/paul-allen-the-singularity-isnt-near/) (and [Kurzweil’s response](http://www.technologyreview.com/view/425818/kurzweil-responds-dont-underestimate-the-singularity/))\
Stephen Hawking – [Transcending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-hawking/artificial-intelligence_b_5174265.html)\
Kurt Andersen – [Enthusiasts and Skeptics Debate Artificial Intelligence](http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/11/artificial-intelligence-singularity-theory)\
[Terms of Ray Kurzweil and Mitch Kapor’s bet about the AI timeline](http://longbets.org/1/)\
Ben Goertzel – [Ten Years To The Singularity If We Really Really Try](http://goertzel.org/TenYearsToTheSingularity.pdf)\
Arthur C. Clarke – [Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Predictions](http://www.arthurcclarke.net/?scifi=3)\
Hubert L. Dreyfus – [What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262540673/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\&camp=1789\&creative=390957\&creativeASIN=0262540673\&linkCode=as2\&tag=wabuwh00-20\&linkId=ZHBAVUQOM6SIGYHG)\
Stuart Armstrong – [Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IB4N4KU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\&camp=1789\&creative=390957\&creativeASIN=B00IB4N4KU\&linkCode=as2\&tag=wabuwh00-20\&linkId=FF3IC2DJNEHA5IAW)\
Ted Greenwald – [X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future](http://www.wired.com/2012/06/mf_icons_diamandis/all/)\
Kaj Sotala and Roman V. Yampolskiy – [Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey](http://intelligence.org/files/ResponsesAGIRisk.pdf%20)\
Jeremy Howard TED Talk – [The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn](http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_terrifying_implications_of_computers_that_can_learn?language=en#t-5550)
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