Trump says executive order will officially rename AI 'super intelligence' in US documents
Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is planning an executive order to replace 'artificial intelligence' with 'super intelligence' in all US government documents, speaking at the launch of the new America.gov website.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is planning to officially rebrand “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence” in all United States government documents through an executive order.
Trump made the announcement at the launch of America.gov, a new website presented as an AI-powered one-stop shop for accessing federal services and information, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC.
“This kind of innovation in government is just a preview of what is possible with super intelligence, or SI, and that’s the official name in the United States,” Trump said at the unveiling. “I’ll be signing a very powerful executive order.”
The president argued the established term made the technology sound fake. “Because when you say artificial intelligence, it’s artificial,” he said. “This is extreme intelligence. It’s superior intelligence. It’s supreme also intelligence. But the word super is the best word of all and it’s the simplest.”
Trump had teased the new name at the United Nations General Assembly last week, and the State Department’s international organisations bureau was already ordered to use “super intelligence” in place of “artificial intelligence” in documents and communications, according to Associated Press reporting.
“This is one more example of why I will never stifle the growth of technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution,” Trump said, rejecting industry warnings. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei recently wrote that AI’s risks include losing control of AI systems, misuse for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption.
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