{"id":281757,"date":"2026-06-25T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence-1a-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:20:21","slug":"ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence-1a-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence-1a-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"AI: The Peril And Opportunity Of Artificial Superintelligence : 1A : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/25\/nx-s1-5871218\/ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence\">AI: The Peril And Opportunity Of Artificial Superintelligence : 1A : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/25\/nx-s1-5871218\/ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/25\/nx-s1-5871218\/ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 14:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                A smartphone displaying the OpenAI logo above the word &#8220;Anthropic&#8221; is seen beside a lit headset<\/p>\n<p>                    Imen Ben Youssef \/ Hans Lucas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Imen Ben Youssef \/ Hans Lucas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence is advancing at a dizzying pace. One analysis shows it doubling its abilities every seven months.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s surpassed humans in more than just trivia and Chess. Last year, an AI from Microsoft solved complex medical cases with 85% accuracy, far about the 20% average for experienced physicians. And a recent Stanford report found that some of the newest A-I systems now match or beat the average human expert on PhD-level science questions.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when A-I is better and smarter than the brightest among us at every task? That\u2019s called superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers disagree about how close we are to that sci-fi goal: is it years, or decades\u2014or possible at all? And what happens if that genie-in-a-bottle is let loose? Some say the risk is as existential as total human extinction.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll discuss the biggest promise \u2013 and peril \u2013 of AI\u2019s advancement beyond humans.<\/p>\n<p>Find more of our programs online. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org\/the1a.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/25\/nx-s1-5871218\/ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI: The Peril And Opportunity Of Artificial Superintelligence : 1A : NPR https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/25\/nx-s1-5871218\/ai-the-peril-and-opportunity-of-artificial-superintelligence Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3377x1900+0+0\/resize\/1400\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7a%2F08%2F0c057692445d893da0d57fe93575%2F30dbb903-7744-480c-b757-3d253a14c368.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281759,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281757\/revisions\/281759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}