Superintelligence: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
Superintelligence came up in 10 of 89 episodes (11%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 7% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 10 episodes behind the newest bar
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 5 times
- Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EVTBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 7 times
- Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 13 times
- Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith RaboisTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal AgentsTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 7 times
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B CollapseAll-In Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson DebateTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- 🔴 LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026TBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
- Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging FaceDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
More from the counts
- Mostly one show: TBPN has 6 of the 10 counted episodes in the newest four weeks.
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…singularity is the last time we connected a lowerc cost super intelligence to the global economy. And…”
Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversation with John and Patrick Collison
“…big difference obviously is uh AGI might emerge and super intelligence where that is uh could you know does the work of…”
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
“…us verified AI is about the brilliance. It's about scaling and compounding super intelligence. So this is quite a deep…”
“…really take the viewer inside uh TBD and meta super intelligence and what's going on with Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Alex…”
Facebook gets a movie, Anthropic gets a Fable, Vinod Khosla, Matthew Prince, Bret Taylor
“…at one point. So Deis Hassabis, Deep Mind and the Quest for Super Intelligence. My question for you, and…”
Inside The AI Race: DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, China, and The Race to Superintelligence
“…especially the ones that are starting to approach something that feels like super intelligence, once they reach it, uh if…”
Now is the Time for the App Layer | OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Mike Mig…
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…might interact with like a a godlike machine super intelligence and humans? So, the idea is like we got to stand up…”
Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…
“…computer. We are past the point of Bernie Sanders put the super intelligence away. It can never be…”
Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…
“…model training at Baseten. The first question I have: If we’re in 2036 and we don’t have billions of crazy superintelligences running around that have radically transformed the world, what is the most likely reason that doesn’t end up being the case?”
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
“…because we're trying to build you know we're building the super intelligence that has uh that has all…”
OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
“I think we're starting to see in this super intelligence local spikes of places where…”
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 6 | 14 |
| All-In Podcast | 2 | 5 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 2 | 3 |
| Latent Space | 0 | 2 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 0 | 2 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 0 | 1 |
| Cheeky Pint | 0 | 1 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “superintelligence” or “super intelligence” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.