The moment an ASI is invented, humans become obsolete. We cannot hope to understand what it is thinking, how it operates, or what its goals are. It is likely able to continue to self-improve exponentially, getting ever more intelligent. What happens then is literally unimaginable to us. This is why this possibility is given names like the Singularity, a reference to a point in mathematical function when the value is unmeasurable, coined by the famous mathematician John von Neumann in the 1950s to refer to the unknown future after which “human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.”
