Calling AI 'Superhuman' Is Like Calling a Plane a 'Superbird', Argues Joshua Saxe
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-09
AI researcher Joshua Saxe offers a contrarian framing: saying "AI is now superhuman" is like calling a car a "supercarriage" or a plane a "superbird."
- LLMs are shaped differently from human intelligence, which is exactly why they're so hard to reason about.
- His point: drop the human-supremacy benchmark framing, treat LLMs as a different kind of intelligence — with implications for how we evaluate and secure them.
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