Governments and Media Use 'Superintelligence' to Mean Two Different Things
S_OhEigeartaigh · x · 2026-10-13
Responding to debate over the term "superintelligence": the British Government used it in speeches back in 2023 under PM Rishi Sunak, well before Trump's rebrand, so journalists should do better research.
But the author notes the two usages mean different things — today's AI doesn't meet the existing definition of 'superintelligence', which is what makes the term such a confusing mess now.
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