How to Use superintelligence in a Sentence

superintelligence

noun
  • Thore Graepel may have been the first human to be vanquished by a superintelligence.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Customers, for the most part, don’t want superintelligence.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Harder still is the problem of how to survive the arrival of superintelligence.
    Calum Chace, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Such tools are not exactly steps on the road to digital superintelligence.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
  • His ship’s doctor is a former reindeer that gained superintelligence.
    Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And at the same time, that goal seems a lot more achievable than trying to figure out how to actually align superintelligence ourselves.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Will the human race be wiped out by an artificial superintelligence?
    Karl Hille, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026
  • In this framework, superintelligence may just be a way to keep people hooked on Meta’s legacy social-media apps and devices.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 July 2025
  • Some people worry about who will be in control of such superintelligences, but in reality, nobody will be in control.
    Nate Soares, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Coupled with vast sums of investment, Hinton doubts the climb toward superintelligence can be stopped.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But why would a superintelligence want to make humanity extinct?
    Time, 20 July 2023
  • Moltbook’s team will join Meta’s superintelligence labs.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The letter also raises the prospects of these systems being on the path to superintelligence that could pose a grave risk to all human civilization.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe the superintelligence is the answer.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Maybe the superintelligence is the answer.
    Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Altman appears to be rushing to produce a superintelligence as soon as possible.
    Calum Chace, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The crux of the residual case for doom is the alignment problem—the prospect that an artificial superintelligence might have no use for human values.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Microsoft said its superintelligence team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, will use the new chip.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Now, Meta’s flashy new superintelligence lab is raising more questions about where the company’s efforts are headed.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • As with the depletion of the ozone layer, everyone stands to lose from the development of superintelligence.
    Andrea Miotti, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • What if humans don’t build in those drives, and superintelligence systems wind up hurting humans by single-mindedly pursuing a goal?
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The extinction risk from superintelligence thus has the potential to cut through every division.
    Andrea Miotti, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For a superintelligence, this could have a catastrophic outcome.
    Time, 20 July 2023
  • More recently, the company and some of its rivals have discussed plans for more powerful software, or superintelligence.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Right now, however, the guardians of today’s leading candidate for nascent superintelligence are reeling from a lunatic boardroom knife fight, and our trust in it has softened.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • One hopeful argument, which is based on the principle of the free market, is that each step toward superintelligence is subject to market acceptance.
    Ray Kurzweil, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • Being a good driver doesn’t take superintelligence, or really any kind of intelligence.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This is the inverse of a doomsday scenario that often comes up in artificial superintelligence theory.
    Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2023
  • When a powerful superintelligence chooses to study Carol, the most average person on Earth, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
    Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
  • But back then, at the beginning, the idea of OpenAI was that superintelligence is attainable.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023

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