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 …—
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The crowd demanded that these companies halt efforts to create superintelligent machines—and, in particular, AI models that can develop future AI models.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
For the sake of argument, Litt imagines a hypothetical library generated by superintelligent AIs and containing every proof possible in the mathematical universe.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
What nobody can explain is what happens if a superintelligent system stops behaving like a tool and starts pursuing its own goals at scale, and at speed well beyond cybersecurity’s ability to contain it.
—Jon Truby, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
In the other, a wildly superintelligent descendant of Agent-1 is allowed to govern the global economy.
—Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
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Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
For the sake of argument, Litt imagines a hypothetical library generated by superintelligent AIs and containing every proof possible in the mathematical universe.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
What nobody can explain is what happens if a superintelligent system stops behaving like a tool and starts pursuing its own goals at scale, and at speed well beyond cybersecurity’s ability to contain it.
—Jon Truby, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
In the other, a wildly superintelligent descendant of Agent-1 is allowed to govern the global economy.
—Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
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“Superintelligent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superintelligent. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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