Superintelligence
Superintelligence refers to a hypothetical AI that far exceeds the best human minds in nearly every field, not just matching them. The philosopher Nick Bostrom popularized the term in his 2014 book of that name. Those who use it disagree about whether it would follow quickly after AGI, and critics question whether the idea of a single scale of intelligence makes sense at all.
Why it comes up
Altman has written it may arrive within "a few thousand days" and Silver founded a company to build it, while Hinton and Bengio signed an October 2025 statement calling for a prohibition on developing it until it can be shown to be safe.
Sam Altman
David Silver
Geoffrey Hinton
Yoshua Bengio
Ilya Sutskever
Mustafa Suleyman