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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing field with governments and militaries around the world increasingly incorporating it into their technologies to create new capabilities. AI has the potential to eventually surpass human intellectual capabilities and obtain Super Intelligence. This thesis examines the implications of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) and how an adversary to the United States could employ it to gain an asymmetric strategic advantage. This paper finds that ASI poses an extreme risk to future operations in the mid and possibly near term and makes recommendations for how the Department of Defense should think about and incorporate the threat of ASI into strategic planning.