🇿🇦 English, 20 October 2026, AI governance
Claims of Superintelligence Often Overlook Unresolved Questions About What Intelligence Means
The conversation around AI's potential for superintelligence distracts from the need for better governance and oversight.
Claims of superintelligence often overlook unresolved questions about what intelligence means. They can also divert attention from the performance of firms directing AI’s development.
Giving an unreliable AI system access, authority and insufficient oversight can be enough to cause major harm, regardless of its ambitions.
The term “superintelligence” risks collapsing distinct capacities into one property that can simply be increased, and the commercial value of inevitability can obscure human agency and accountability.