What is the difference between AGI and ASI?

AGI is general AI at human level on most tasks; ASI (superintelligence) goes well beyond that. Neither has a single agreed definition.

When will superintelligence arrive?

Nobody knows. In 2024 Sam Altman wrote of "a few thousand days", with the caveat that it may take longer. In 2025 Demis Hassabis put AGI at five to ten years away. These are statements, not facts.

Who is working on superintelligence?

Among others OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and Safe Superintelligence Inc. have publicly named AGI, powerful AI or superintelligence as a goal. There are critical voices too, such as the Statement on Superintelligence.

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What is superintelligence? AGI vs ASI, timelines with sources

What is superintelligence? As of 3 Nov 2026: AGI, ASI and what already exists today, with a photo of the conference hall at Compile 26 in London

Not legal advice. This page sorts public sources, as of 3 Nov 2026. Figures and quotes come from the linked sources. Forecasts are statements by the people named, not facts.

In short

AGI means artificial general intelligence. The OpenAI Charter describes it as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work" (OpenAI Charter).
Superintelligence (ASI) goes further: AI that significantly outperforms humans on essentially all cognitive tasks (definition in the Statement on Superintelligence).
Several AI labs openly name superintelligence as a goal. The timelines are statements by individuals, not facts, and they carry their own caveats.
For SMEs something else matters today: using the AI that already exists, properly and with a human in the loop.

Superintelligence · as of 3 Nov 2026

Three terms, kept apart

AGIgoal

General AI

AI at human level on most tasks.
No single definition. Whether it has been reached is disputed.

ASIgoal

Superintelligence

AI that significantly outperforms humans on essentially all cognitive tasks.
Does not exist today.

AItoday

What already exists

Language models and agents that work on text, code and documents.
Need checking by people.

As of 3 Nov 2026. Forecasts are labelled as statements.

Who is building it, and what was said

Quotes in the original, with date and source. They are expectations, not facts.

Who	Statement	Date	Source
Sam Altman, OpenAI	"It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I'm confident we'll get there."	23 Sep 2024	The Intelligence Age
Dario Amodei, Anthropic	Powerful AI, a "country of geniuses in a datacenter", "could come as early as 2026, though there are also ways it could take much longer".	October 2024	Machines of Loving Grace
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind	AGI is "somewhere between five and 10 years away".	15 Apr 2025	TIME
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta	"Developing superintelligence is now in sight."	30 Jul 2025	meta.com/superintelligence
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)	"Superintelligence is within reach."	Website, accessed 3 Nov 2026	ssi.inc

Critical voices

Not everyone sees the goal positively. The Statement on Superintelligence calls for a prohibition on developing superintelligence until there is broad scientific consensus that it can be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in.

We take both sides seriously and adopt neither as fact. What is fact: the labs are investing heavily, the timelines differ, and those who name them add their own caveats.

How Europe regulates it

Providers of general-purpose AI models (GPAI) have their own obligations under the AI Act in the EU since 2 Aug 2025. In Liechtenstein the AI Act will only apply after the EEA takeover. Details: EU AI Act for Liechtenstein and the EEA.

What this means for SMEs in Liechtenstein

Don't wait for superintelligence to arrive or not. Today's tools already save time when they connect to real workflows (AI agents in SMEs).
Calculate rather than believe: what a workflow brings can be estimated up front and tested in a pilot (AI quotes case).
Build skills: teams that understand AI can also put bigger leaps into context (The Lab).

From practice: go-lives and cases

What we build ourselves with AI. Client names only where the client published them; cases stay anonymised.

Compile 26 in London: AI teammates, agents and a year in code (in German)
Live: thehumanlayer.li, the human side of AI (in German)
Live: digihub-lab.ai, for AI projects beyond workshops and pilots (in German)

digihub · In der Specki 3, Schaan

AI in your own business: where do we start?

We don't start with a tool, we start with a bottleneck: which workflow eats noticeable time today? Then we build a pilot with real examples from your daily work and bring it into operation (The Automation Layer). The first conversation takes 30 minutes and is non-binding.

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Sources

Not legal advice. Whether and how a rule applies to your business is a question for a qualified adviser. As of 3 Nov 2026.

Content from digihub.li · reviewed 3 November 2026.

What is superintelligence? AGI, ASI and who is building it