Abhijeet Sarkar’s The Superintelligence Blueprint: A Critical Analysis of AI Governance, Ethics, Strategic Foresight, Safety, Alignment, Arms Races, and Architectures

Abstract This research critically examines Abhijeet Sarkar’s The Superintelligence Blueprint: Planning for an AI-Dominated World (2025), situating it within the evolution of AI safety thought from Turing and Good through Bostrom and Russell. After outlining the book’s four-phase structure—Foundations of Intelligence; Paths to Superintelligence; The Control Transition; and Policy & Governance Roadmap—it interrogates Sarkar’s core thesis: that an urgent, interdisciplinary, and multi-stakeholder approach is essential to ensure a beneficial superintelligence transition. Through a qualitative synthesis of case studies (e.g., AI in healthcare diagnostics, algorithmic trading), conceptual modeling of takeoff scenarios, and comparative policy analysis (notably the EU AI Act, U.S.