superintelligent

adjective

su·​per·​in·​tel·​li·​gent ˌsü-pər-in-ˈte-lə-jənt 

: extremely or extraordinarily intelligent : characterized by superintelligence

a superintelligent robot

At school she inhabits the twilight zone between the successful and popular cheer-leader types and the angst-ridden, anarchistic, superintelligent underachievers …

—Jack Butler

Examples of superintelligent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the machine-learning community, some AI safety researchers are particularly afraid that a superintelligent AI that is exponentially smarter than humans will soon emerge, escape captivity, and either take control of human civilization or wipe it out completely. —Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023

Even darker concerns have been raised about the prospect of superintelligent systems that could evolve without human control. —Jamie Merisotis, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023

Less than one year ago, Altman signed onto a letter warning of runaway AI possibly ending all human life and wrote a blog post preparing for a world beyond superintelligent AI. —Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024

Right now, their inaccuracies are providing humanity with some breathing room in the transition to coexistence with superintelligent AI entities. —Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024

Could this alignment technique scale to superintelligent AI? —IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2023

Both JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon and billionaire investor Ray Dalio have argued the working week will be reduced massively once superintelligent machines start filling job vacancies. —Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023

Burns gives an example of how a similar situation might play out in a future with superintelligent AI. —IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2023

OpenAI is now scrambling to reset its own experiment in designing corporate governance resilient to both superintelligent AI and ordinary human squabbles. —WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above