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About Superintelligence in Robots

Superintelligence in Robots follows the biggest questions in AI as they reach physical machines: what superintelligence and AGI mean, how autonomy is measured, and how people keep capable robots safe and under control. It is published by The Humanoid Group.

Sources we rely on

International AI Safety Report 2025 — International AI Safety Report (expert panel backed by 30 countries, the UN, EU and OECD).
The first government-backed scientific review of what general-purpose AI can do and the risks it poses.
Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence — UNESCO (United Nations Digital Library).
UNESCO's global standard on AI ethics, adopted in November 2021, with human oversight among its principles.
OECD AI Principles — Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD.AI).
The first intergovernmental standard on AI, adopted in 2019 and updated in 2024, with values and policy recommendations.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Management system — ISO and IEC, via the Standards Council of Canada.
The international standard for managing AI within an organisation that builds or uses AI systems.
AI Security Institute — UK Government (GOV.UK).
The UK government body that researches and tests the risks posed by advanced AI.
A Principled AI Discussion in Asilomar — Future of Life Institute (non-profit).
How researchers at the 2017 Asilomar conference agreed 23 principles for beneficial AI, including long-term safety.
Center for Human-Compatible AI — University of California, Berkeley.
UC Berkeley research centre working towards provably beneficial AI, and home of the off-switch research.

What Superintelligence Means — Narrow AI, AGI and superintelligence: what each term means, and what each would mean for robots.
Levels of AGI — How researchers grade AI by performance, breadth and autonomy, and where today's systems sit.
Why Bodies Are Hard — Why AI that aces exams still struggles with chores a toddler manages, and what that means for robots.
Levels of Robot Autonomy — From remote control to full autonomy: the scales researchers use to say how independent a robot is.
Aligning Robots — Why robots can do what they were told rather than what was meant, and how researchers close the gap.
Off-Switches and Oversight — Why a capable AI might resist being switched off, and how researchers and safety standards respond.
Frontier AI Safety — The if-then safety plans AI developers publish, and the government institutes that test advanced models.
Reading AGI Forecasts — What expert surveys and trend lines say about when AGI might arrive, and how to read them sensibly.
Asimov's Laws and Ethics — Why Asimov's Three Laws fail as engineering rules, and the principles and standards that replaced them.
AI, Robots and Jobs — What the best evidence says about robots, AI and work, from US factory towns to global exposure estimates.
Latest updates — Ambitious talk of superintelligence now sits alongside new safety tools, shifting rules and sober expert forecasts. These figures and dated updates show what changed, with a source for every claim.
About us — What we cover, how we source every figure, and who publishes this site.

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