# Human Superintelligence **Entity class:** Augmentation and sovereignty concept **Domain:** Transhumanism / neural interfaces / human agency ## Definition Human superintelligence is the proposal that people retain meaningful civilizational agency by becoming participants in superhuman cognitive systems rather than delegating decisive competence to autonomous machine systems outside themselves. Possible routes include high-bandwidth neural interfaces, collective intelligence, biological enhancement and human-machine merger. ## Political significance The concept treats augmentation as a sovereignty problem, not merely a performance upgrade. A society may remain materially comfortable while individuals lose influence over knowledge, production and political choice. [[wiki/Human Superintelligence|Human Superintelligence]] therefore connects [[wiki/Human Agency|Human Agency]], [[wiki/Human-Machine Merger|Human-Machine Merger]], [[wiki/Brain-Computer Interfaces|Brain-Computer Interfaces]] and [[wiki/Transhumanism|Transhumanism]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “If you accept that superintelligence is going to run the world—because superintelligence is just so much more powerful than regular intelligence that it’s just obvious that it’s going to do that—then the question is: is it AI superintelligence, or is it human superintelligence? Human superintelligence seems like the correct answer if we want to retain our agency. And if we want human superintelligence, then the question is, what is the path to actually getting there?” > **— Vitalik Buterin**, *80,000 Hours interview, July 26, 2024* [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Human Superintelligence Is the Path to Retaining Human Agency by Vitalik Buterin|Human Superintelligence Is the Path to Retaining Human Agency by Vitalik Buterin]]