Grady Booch: calling it 'superintelligence' makes you 'a fool and a coward'
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-11-15
Grady Booch, the legendary software engineer and IBM Chief Scientist, blasted the industry's use of the term "superintelligence," writing that anyone who insists on calling it that rather than "artificial intelligence" is "both a fool and a coward." The jab adds a prominent voice to the ongoing backlash against AGI/superintelligence hype narratives.
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