superintelligence
also referred to as: super intelligence
26 statements across 17 episodes · 8 bullish · 9 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2023 by Sam Altman · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Dec 13, 2023
Approaching superintelligence makes everyone involved more stressed and anxious
“I think everybody involved in this, as we get closer and closer to superintelligence Everybody involved gets more stressed and more anxious, and we realize the stakes are higher and higher, and I think that will explode.”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Bostrom predicts superintelligence could compress 20,000 years of research into a flash
“So all these sort of science fiction-like technologies that maybe we would develop if we had like, you know, 20,000 years for human scientists to work for it, we probably will have a cure for aging and perfect virtual reality and space colonies and all the res…”
Mar 28, 2025 negative
Hendrycks: Superintelligence race will incentivize preemptive sabotage of rival AI projects
“I think that form of competition would be very dangerous, and because there's a risk of loss of control, and because it might incentivize states to engage in preventive sabotage or preemptive sabotage to disable these sorts of projects.”
Mar 28, 2025
Jun 14, 2025 negative
Jun 18, 2025 neutral
Jun 18, 2025
Patel: One-month lead in intelligence explosion yields winner-take-all dominance
“Look, if there is an intelligence explosion, it has a really tough dynamic because if you're a month ahead, you will kick off this loop much faster than anybody else. And what that means is that you will you will be a month ahead to super intelligence, but nob…”
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Meta are building the exact same thing using LLMs
“I'll stand on the table here and say it's the same thing. I think it's, if there were different techniques, I think this is really what it comes down to. If there were different techniques to build AGI and super intelligence, I would say, okay, sure, you know,…”
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Siegler: AI industry shift to 'superintelligence' branding is purely marketing
“It's, it just is obviously all marketing at this point, and so I do feel like that, you know, you gotta at some point pin people down to say like, what are you actually trying to build, and what is the outcome of that going to be?”
Nov 10, 2025 bearish
Kantrowitz: AI price wars will destroy OpenAI's profit-sharing business models
“Somebody else is just gonna develop super intelligence as well, and they're gonna get into a price war.
So how long can you say, I want a party of the profit of this drug that you're gonna develop with our technology?
Where like somebody else can be like, well…”
Nov 12, 2025 neutral
Dec 18, 2025
Altman: Superintelligence Means Outperforming Human CEOs and Presidents Unaided
“A candidate definition for superintelligence is when a system can do a better job being president United States, CEO of a major company, you know, running a very large scientific lab than any person can, even with the assistance of AI.”
Dec 18, 2025 bearish
Dec 24, 2025 neutral
Albergati: OpenAI chip push is about inference costs, not superintelligence
“So I think when you talk about like opening AI, building its own chips and data centers and all this stuff, that's all about like them for seeing the future where there's so many people using these things, those it's expensive to run in the data center. They'r…”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Levie: Altman's 2028 superintelligence timeline is totally reasonable
“I think that, that there's kind of, that seems to be totally reasonable based on the trajectory that we're on. And I would bet that, that Sam has an even a far higher bar for what his definition of, you know, intellectual or whatever the term was, then even I …”
Apr 13, 2026 bullish
Saint-Marc: Superintelligence will emerge from multi-agent scaling, not single models
“We had this strong thesis and vision that the intelligence will come not just from building ever smarter and ever bigger and more powerful single agents But more through what we call horizontal scaling. So we distributed systems, a lot of agents coming togethe…”
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Hinton: Alignment paths exist to prevent superintelligence from destroying humanity
“I guess I'm more optimistic than I was a year or two ago, because I see that it might be possible to design these new beings so they care about us. It also might be possible to use Yoshua's technique of designing new, new beings that can't actually perform act…”
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Jun 4, 2026
Aug 19, 2026 positive
Aug 19, 2026
Bostrom: Current Compute Might Suffice For Superintelligence If Algorithmic Bottlenecks Clear
“Turns out there is like some big hobbling that we have unwittingly, like some, something we were doing wrong that just made these systems way less efficient than they could be. And when somebody figures out how to remove that, like maybe the current Compute is…”
Aug 19, 2026 positive