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

But one of the many problems with an AGI finish line is that by its very nature, a machine superintelligence would be smarter than humans and therefore impossible to control. —IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2026

Read the story » More Top Stories Nick Land, the doomsaying philosopher of Silicon Valley, believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. —Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026

Microsoft said its superintelligence team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, will use the new chip. —Jordan Novet, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026

Meta has already boosted the budgets of various AI teams, such as its TBD Lab working on superintelligence. —Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for superintelligence

• counterintelligence
• intelligence