superintelligence

noun

su·​per·​in·​tel·​li·​gence ˌsü-pər-in-ˈte-lə-jən(t)s 

plural superintelligences

1

: an entity that surpasses humans in overall intelligence or in some particular measure of intelligence

A speed superintelligence could do everything a human mind could do, but much faster.

—Nick Bostrom

also : the intelligence displayed by such an entity

the development of machine superintelligence

2

: an extremely or extraordinarily high degree of intelligence

displayed superintelligence in mathematics

… the first of a planned trilogy about teens whose empathic abilities give them an emotional superintelligence.

—Terry Hong

Examples of superintelligence in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Meta’s next moves Meta, on the other hand, has carried out its own campaign to gain an edge over OpenAI, restructuring its AI division with a focus on building a superintelligence team and poaching key AI architects, including former OpenAI employees. —Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025

Before pouring more investment into its AI teams, Meta needs time to place and access its new talent before forging to new breakthroughs like superintelligence. —Daniel Newman, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025

Disturbing contemporary audiences, the resulting superintelligence subordinates all human individuals — absorbing them as mere neurons in its global cortex. —Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025

Meta is in league with tech giants such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic that are all racing toward superintelligence, the theoretical point at which AI becomes smarter than all humans at all knowledge work. —Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for superintelligence

• counterintelligence
• intelligence