# The Road to RSI: Rogue Super Intelligence Timeline 1950 to 2026 > 20 sourced moments from Turing in 1950 to SI building SI in 2026: the intelligence explosion, Bostrom, Bletchley, the superintelligence statement and the RSI year. Source: https://enterrsi.si/timeline/ Updated: 2026-11-08 1. [Home](https://enterrsi.si/) 2. Timeline Timeline · 1950 to 2026 # The road to RSI How a 1965 warning became a 2026 headline. 20 moments that put rogue super intelligence on the map, each one dated and linked to its source. Moments : 20 Span : 76 years Eras : 4 Latest : Nov 2026 Four eras ## From thought experiment to policy Origins, theory, warnings and the RSI year. The gaps between the moments keep getting shorter. Era 01 ## Origins 4 moments 1. 1950 ### Can machines think? Alan Turing publishes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” and proposes the imitation game, the first serious test for machine minds. [Source · Mind, 1950](https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238) 2. 1956 ### The field gets a name The Dartmouth summer workshop names the field “artificial intelligence,” the term the United States replaced with Super Intelligence in 2026. [Source · Dartmouth](https://home.dartmouth.edu/about/artificial-intelligence-ai-coined-dartmouth) 3. 1965 ### The intelligence explosion I. J. Good writes that an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines, and that the first one could be the last invention we ever need, if it stays docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control. [Source · Background](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Intelligence_explosion) 4. 1993 ### The singularity Vernor Vinge predicts superhuman intelligence within 30 years and asks whether such an event can be guided at all. [Source · Vinge, 1993](https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html) Era 02 ## Theory 4 moments 1. 2003 ### The paperclip maximizer Nick Bostrom shows how a harmless goal pursued by a super intelligence, like making paperclips, could still end in catastrophe. [Source · Bostrom, 2003](https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai) 2. 2014 ### Superintelligence, the book Bostrom's “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” brings the control problem to presidents, founders and the public. [Source · Oxford University Press](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/superintelligence-9780199678112) 3. 2015 ### The first open letter Thousands of researchers sign the Future of Life Institute letter on research priorities for safe and beneficial systems. [Source · Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-open-letter/) 4. 2017 ### The Asilomar principles 23 principles, including that highly autonomous systems should be designed so their goals stay aligned with human values. [Source · Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/) Era 03 ## Warnings 6 moments 1. Mar 2023 ### The pause letter An open letter calls for a six month pause on training systems more powerful than GPT-4. [Source · Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/) 2. May 2023 ### One sentence on extinction Lab leaders and researchers sign a one sentence statement: reducing the risk of extinction from the technology should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. [Source · Center for AI Safety](https://safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk) 3. Nov 2023 ### Bletchley Park The first global summit on frontier safety. 28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration. [Source · UK Government](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration) 4. Jun 2024 ### A company named for it Ilya Sutskever co-founds Safe Superintelligence Inc. with a single goal: a safe super intelligence. [Source · SSI](https://ssi.inc) 5. Jan 2025 ### The international report Yoshua Bengio leads the first International AI Safety Report, written with experts nominated by 30 countries. [Source · UK Government](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-ai-safety-report-2025) 6. Oct 2025 ### The superintelligence statement Researchers, faith leaders, artists and public figures call for a prohibition on building super intelligence until it can be done safely and controllably, with strong public buy-in. [Source · Statement on Superintelligence](https://superintelligence-statement.org) Era 04 ## The RSI year 6 moments 1. Apr 2026 ### “There should be” Asked whether SI needs safeguards or a kill switch, President Trump says “there should be.” [Source · Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/statement/trumps-support-for-an-ai-kill-switch/) 2. Sep 2026 ### The warning goes viral An Anthropic researcher resigns over extinction risk and names recursive self-improvement as the main fear. His post passes 170 million views, and days later lab leaders call for a slowdown. [Source · Center for AI Safety](https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-81-anthropic-researchers-resignation) 3. Sep 2026 ### The UN takes it up 22 countries led by Finland and Norway adopt a declaration that SI must stay under human control, and lab leaders brief the Security Council. [Source · Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/statement/statement-world-leaders-at-the-un-call-to-rein-in-superintelligence-race/) 4. Sep 2026 ### A call to limit RSI The Future of Life Institute urges governments to press companies to immediately limit recursive self-improvement until the research to make it safe is done. [Source · Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/statement/statement-we-must-pressure-ai-companies-to-immediately-limit-the-use-of-recursive-self-improvement/) 5. Sep 2026 ### Super Intelligence becomes official An executive order makes Super Intelligence the official federal term, and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia sign the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. [Source · Federal Register](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence) 6. Nov 2026 ### SI building SI METR reports that Anthropic is using SI to build more powerful SI, with its models improving roughly twice as fast as a year earlier. [Source · The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1029126/anthropic-metr-report-accelerating-ai-development) Enter RSI ## The next entry is being written now Follow the live feed and the Mainstream Meter to see what joins the timeline next. [Open the live feed](https://enterrsi.si/news/) [RSI Watch](https://enterrsi.si/watch/) [Join the Telegram](https://t.me/enterrsitg)[Follow @enterrsi](https://x.com/enterrsi)