Once we reach [[ASI is a type of AI that would greatly exceed human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks|superintelligence]], the intelligence may be so far away from what humans can comprehend, that we could not understand what was going on, even if we tried. There will probably remain humans in pursuit of knowledge, doing their best to comprehend what's going on. To give these people even a chance at understanding a superintelligence, they'll most likely need new ways of augmenting themselves. This is the long-term mission of companies like [Neuralink](https://neuralink.com/). Creating an interface for human/AI symbiosis. The recent trials are promising, and extrapolating the technology into the future, it will probably enable humans to acquire knowledge and understanding at a currently impossible speed. Even if it can speed up cognition, unless we can create direct connections between the brain and an external superintelligence, it seems unlikely that humans can reach the intelligence level of a superintelligence through human/AI symbiosis. Take the example of creating an airplane. If we are forced to start from a living bird, and build the airplane around that bird, then the airplane would be nowhere as fast and efficient as a regular airplane would be. The bird and the airplane use different processes to fly, which is why the gap in their speed is so large. Similarly, if we tried to build superintelligence around the human brain, it seems likely that the brain would be the biggest bottleneck. A superintelligence may use methods of thinking that are so far from humans, that it would be impossible to connect the human directly to that process.