--- title: "AGI - superintelligence — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # AGI - superintelligence (💡 Concepts) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › AGI - superintelligence AGI - superintelligence is 🔥 Hot on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 27 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 9 points higher than 7 days before. It has been in hype for 7 days, since Sep 21, and peaked at 40 on Sep 22. AGI and superintelligence: the debate over human-level AI (or beyond), timelines, and risks. First seen on Reddit · Sep 18 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the run-up to this hype episode. Why this stage: in hype for 7 days; 27 vs peak 40 on Sep 22. - **Stage:** 🔥 Hot — in hype and holding up - **Hype score:** 26.6 / 100 · +9.1 in 1 day · +9.3 in 7 days - **In hype since:** Sep 21, 2026 (7 days) - **Peak, 30 days:** 76.6 on Sep 4, 2026 - **Category:** 💡 Concepts - **Sources above normal:** 2 of 25 scoring it (2 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 297 - **Share of voice:** 0.7% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 6 (Sep 26) | 1 | 3.5× | yes | 40% | | Reddit | posts | 20 | 10 | 1.9× | yes | 37% | | Wikipedia | pageviews | 1,697 | 1,415 | 1.2× | no | 13% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 6 (Sep 26) | 2 | 2.3× | no | 10% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Is this AGI?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wrcvub/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 27 · score 2,780 · 174 comments 2. [THE FUCKING "CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTIONS" IDEA THAT WON OVER THE NYTIMES JOURNALIST IS FUCKING HARDCODED. ALL THE IDEAS ARE FUCKING HARDCODED. AGI IS HERE BABY!!!!!! #muse #meta #AIIsGoingGreat #AGI #AGI…](https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325137427138728) — Mastodon (fediverse) (neuromatch.social) · Sep 24 · score 1,117 · 34 comments 3. [Aging may be a program, not a breakdown](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804266) — Hacker News (quantamagazine.org) · Sep 22 · score 82 · 88 comments 4. [On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-ezra-kleins-podcast-with-jensen) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 25 · score 135 · 50 comments 5. [FuseReg: Regularizing Layer Fusion Mitigates the Reconstruction-Generation Gap in Representation Autoencoders](https://huggingface.co/papers/2609.31620) — Hugging Face Daily Papers (hf-papers) · Sep 28 · score 114 · 2 comments 6. [The Post-AGI Era](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847359) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (avidfayaz.com) · Sep 25 · score 13 · 50 comments 7. [Film Screening: We're Not Ready for SuperIntelligence](https://luma.com/6dfchcyt) — Luma (SF AI events) (Berkeley EA) · score 53 8. [A recording of the Meta Connect 2026 opening keynote](https://www.techmeme.com/260923/p45#a260923p45) — Techmeme (Meta on YouTube) · Sep 23 · score 5 · 2 comments 9. [AI Is Dead. Long Live Super Intelligence!!!](https://dev.to/alirezaai/ai-is-dead-long-live-super-intelligence-4h60) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 24 · score 2 · 0 comments 10. [Alexandria by Firecrawl](https://www.producthunt.com/products/extract-by-firecrawl) — Product Hunt (Developer Tools) · Sep 22 11. [Sen. Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence, create Department of AI](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiowFBVV95cUxQT0JoalctY3ZVZ3FaRmhsRlM3blpFdWZINS1MMmQwdllMT0V3YWJIYkNqTWduQmFEUEJRdTdHODNvaDdneUszZUJCTjFuUWhRMFBGVWNXdnEtS3BSZjh6LXZiZ01uY0s4SERFZ1R2MzJaTHVOQk9ZVGNLYlI3eVlRLS1tM3paSGlQbjBuNDJoX1FhaXR6c2RBYzRDbG4wNWNxd3NB?oc=5) — SF local press (RSS) (San Francisco Chronicle) · Sep 23 12. [Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Artificial_Superintelligence_Act) — Wikipedia (new-article) · Sep 23 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 184 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 47% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 42% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 24% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 15% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 9.8% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 8.7% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Safe Superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ssi.md), [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md), [AI in math](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_math.md), [Stop the AI Race protest](https://abovethefog.app/topics/stop_ai_race.md) - **Mentioned with:** [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) (89 stories), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) (68 stories), [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md) (13 stories), [Physical AI - humanoids](https://abovethefog.app/topics/physical_ai.md) (12 stories), [World models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/world_models.md) (6 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 26.6 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 26, 2026 | 17.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 27.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 24, 2026 | 27.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 23, 2026 | 31.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 22, 2026 | 40.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 34 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 20, 2026 | 17.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 19, 2026 | 17.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 30.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 17, 2026 | 53.9 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 16, 2026 | 39.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 15, 2026 | 53 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 14, 2026 | 53.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 13, 2026 | 36.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 35.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 57.3 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 10, 2026 | 63.3 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 9, 2026 | 66.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 8, 2026 | 74.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 7, 2026 | 71 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 6, 2026 | 49.2 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 5, 2026 | 47 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 4, 2026 | 76.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 3, 2026 | 74.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 3.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 12.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 4.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 1.5 | 💤 Quiet | [Open AGI - superintelligence in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=agi) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)