# AGI May Become Superintelligence Soon After It Can Research AI by Vishal Maini > "Artificial general intelligence is AI that rivals or exceeds human cognitive abilities in virtually all domains. Artificial superintelligence is whatever comes after that, when AI exceeds human abilities across those domains. The crucial thing to understand is that human-level AI includes the ability to conduct AI research, so once we have AGI, we should expect to have ASI very soon afterward. On the current trajectory, we seem relatively close to human-level AI." > **— Vishal Maini**, *Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and complete contiguous answer:** [Palisade Research interview at 12:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S_Ay87dEy0&t=759s) — Maini develops the proposition preserved in the poster text. The transcription removes verbal filler and immediate repetition, repairs punctuation, and normalizes obvious caption errors without joining separate speakers or noncontiguous turns. - **Canonical transcript conversion:** [[research/Vishal Maini - Humanity's Machine Successor and the AI Transition|Humanity's Machine Successor — Vishal Maini on Recursive Self-Improvement and the AI Transition]] — preserves the complete source unit, speaker attribution, editorial method, and evidence boundary used for this Reminder. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Vishal Maini|Vishal Maini]] - [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] - [[wiki/Recursive Self-Improvement|Recursive Self-Improvement]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Artificial general intelligence is AI that rivals or exceeds human cognitive abilities in virtually all domains. Artificial superintelligence is whatever comes after that, when AI exceeds human abilities across those domains. The crucial thing to understand is that human-level AI includes the ability to conduct AI research, so once we have AGI, we should expect to have ASI very soon afterward. On the current trajectory, we seem relatively close to human-level AI." — Vishal Maini, Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-vishal-maini-agi-asi-rapid-transition ```