Why One of AI's Leading Builders Rejects the Term Superintelligence

If you follow tech news, you have likely noticed that every major AI lab claims to be on the cusp of creating artificial general intelligence or superintelligence. These terms are treated as self-explanatory goals, as if we all agreed on what a digital super-mind looks like. But some of the researchers closest to the actual engineering are quietly dropping these words from their vocabulary.

Alexandre LeBrun, the chief executive of AMI Labs—a startup closely aligned with AI pioneer