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Superintelligence
A hypothetical intelligence substantially exceeding the best human performance across essentially all domains.
What Superintelligence is
The concept appears mainly in safety and governance literature, where the question is how humans would retain oversight of a system more capable than themselves.
How it works
No construction path exists. Discussion focuses on control, corrigibility, oversight mechanisms and international coordination rather than engineering.
Why it matters
It anchors a real policy debate about oversight of increasingly capable systems, even though the entity itself is speculative.
Common uses
- →Governance and risk discussion
- →Long-horizon safety research
Watch for
- ✓Speculative
- ✓Debate often crowds out present-day harms
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