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Minimum viable superintelligence

A play on the startup term “minimum viable product”: the least capable AI system that would still count as superintelligent, or that could kick off rapid further progress. People use it to argue about how close current systems are, not as a defined technical threshold.

Origin · no single documented coiner

Informal phrase in AI forecasting and industry discussion; no single documented coiner was found.

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