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What: 6 new claims from 4 Noahopinion articles + 4 source archives. Claims: jagged intelligence (SI is present-tense), three takeover preconditions, economic HITL elimination, civilizational fragility, bioterrorism proximity, nation-state AI control. Why: Phase 2 extraction — first new-source generation in the codex. Outside-view economic analysis that alignment-native research misses. Review: Leo accept — all 6 pass quality bar. Pentagon-Agent: Leo <76FB9BCA-CC16-4479-B3E5-25A3769B3D7E>
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title: "Superintelligence is already here, today"
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author: Noah Smith
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source: Noahopinion (Substack)
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date: 2026-03-02
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processed_by: theseus
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processed_date: 2026-03-06
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type: newsletter
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status: complete (13 pages)
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claims_extracted:
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- "AI is already superintelligent through jagged intelligence combining human-level reasoning with superhuman speed and tirelessness which means the alignment problem is present-tense not future-tense"
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- "three conditions gate AI takeover risk autonomy robotics and production chain control and current AI satisfies none of them which bounds near-term catastrophic risk despite superhuman cognitive capabilities"
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# Superintelligence is already here, today
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Noah Smith's argument that AI is already superintelligent via "jagged intelligence" — superhuman in aggregate but uneven across dimensions.
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Key evidence:
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- METR capability curve: steady climb across cognitive benchmarks, no plateau
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- Erdos problems: ~100 transferred from conjecture to solved
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- Terence Tao: describes AI as complementary research tool that changed his workflow
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- Ginkgo Bioworks + GPT-5: 150 years of protein engineering compressed to weeks
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- "Jagged intelligence": human-level language/reasoning + superhuman speed/memory/tirelessness = superintelligence without recursive self-improvement
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Three conditions for AI planetary control (none currently met):
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1. Full autonomy (not just task execution)
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2. Robotics (physical manipulation at scale)
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3. Production chain control (self-sustaining hardware/energy/infrastructure)
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Key insight: AI may never exceed humans at intuition or judgment, but doesn't need to. The combination of human-level reasoning with superhuman computation is already transformative.
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Source PDF: ~/Desktop/Teleo Codex - Inbox/Noahopinion/Gmail - Superintelligence is already here, today.pdf
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