Superintelligence Search Interest: Trends Over Time

Observations

Written by hand at each refresh from the current export. Figures are Google Trends relative values (0–100), worldwide unless stated. Last reviewed 2026-10-20.

• The two-word spelling set the five-year record during the federal rename. “super intelligence” scored 94 in the week of September 20, 2026, the week of the President’s UN speech announcing the change, and 100 in the week of September 27, when Executive Order 14434 was signed. Two weeks later it was at 36, still higher than any week before 2026.
• The one-word spelling’s record is from 2025, not 2026. “superintelligence” peaked at 68 in the week of August 17, 2025, two to three weeks after Meta’s “Personal Superintelligence” letter and in the middle of Meta Superintelligence Labs’ recruiting coverage. The federal rename lifted it to 64 (week of September 20, 2026) but not past that peak.
• The spellings have swapped places twice. In 2025, “superintelligence” scored higher than “super intelligence” in 41 of 52 weeks. In the first half of 2026 the two-word form led in 21 of 26 weeks, including an unexplained 87 in the week of February 8. From July to mid-September 2026 the one-word form led again in every week, until the rename.
• Attention is higher than a year ago, in both spellings. Over the last 52 complete weeks, “superintelligence” averaged 34 against 15 in the 52 weeks before; “super intelligence” averaged 37 against 10. Both spent most of the year above 25, a level neither reached in a typical week before mid-2025.
• “artificial superintelligence” barely registers against the other two. Its five-year high is 19 (week of August 17, 2025) and it averaged 6 over the last year. On this chart it is a floor, not a trend. The AGI-versus-ASI comparison, where it is a meaningful line, is planned as a separate view.
• The United States looks the same, with one difference. The US peak for “superintelligence” came earlier (39, week of July 27, 2025) and the rename spike was sharper relative to everything before it: the two-word form’s pre-2026 US high was 19.

The Google Trends series matches searches containing the words, so the “superintelligence” line includes searches for Safe Superintelligence Inc. and Meta Superintelligence Labs. The spikes in June 2024 and mid-2025 are consistent with that. See the methodology below.

Methodology

Provider. Google Trends, “Interest over time,” web search, all categories. There is no public Google Trends API as of this writing (Google’s official API is an invitation-only alpha), so the data is the CSV that Google Trends’ own download button produces, saved unchanged in the SI Builders repository. Nothing is scraped.

Queries. Three search terms are compared in one request: superintelligence, super intelligence and artificial superintelligence. They are raw search terms, not Google’s topic entities, because the comparison between the one-word and two-word spellings is the point of the page and a topic entity merges them. Raw terms match any search containing the words, so searches for company names such as Safe Superintelligence and Meta Superintelligence Labs count toward the “superintelligence” line.

Scale. Values are relative, not search counts. Google scales the whole comparison so that the single busiest week for any of the three terms is 100 and every other point is a share of it. A 50 means half the search share of that peak week, within this comparison. Values are only comparable within one export; the worldwide and United States exports are scaled separately and should not be read against each other.

Views. Two exports are kept: worldwide and United States, both covering the past five years at weekly resolution. The 12-month view is a window on the five-year export rather than a separate export, so the two ranges agree with each other. (Google re-scales a separate 12-month request; as of this refresh it produced identical values, because the peak falls inside the last year.)

Partial week. Google’s last row is the week in progress. It is drawn as a dotted stub and excluded from every statistic on this page.

“<1”. Google reports very low weeks as “<1”. They are plotted at 0.5 and counted as 0.5 in averages.

Events. Markers are the events in the SI Builders log, the same dated, sourced record that builds The Rise of Super Intelligence. Each one links to its entry there. “Events near this week” lists everything logged within seven days of the selected week. Proximity is not causation; a spike with no logged event nearby is left unexplained rather than guessed at.

Refresh. Weekly, normally on Monday. Each refresh adds a new dated file; earlier exports are kept so historical values can be checked after Google revises its scaling. The date shown as “Data through” is the last day of the last complete week.

What this measures. Search interest is attention. It is not capability, adoption, investment or progress toward any system, and nothing on this page should be read as evidence that any such system exists.

Change log

• 2026-10-20: Initial publication. Worldwide and United States, five years, three terms, markers from the SI Builders events log.

Corrections and additions, with a source, to corrections@sibuilders.io.