Trump Rebrands AI as Super Intelligence and Rejects Global Regulation
President Donald Trump renamed artificial intelligence to super intelligence and announced an AI Force while rejecting international efforts to regulate the technology.
During a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, Donald Trump announced that the United States government will replace the term artificial intelligence with super intelligence (SI) in all official documents. He argued that the word artificial makes the technology sound fake and that SI is a more accurate description of a revolution he believes will surpass the Industrial Revolution. Following this directive, the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs ordered diplomats to adopt the new nomenclature in all official communications.
Trump further announced plans to establish an AI Force, modeled after the Space Force, and appoint an AI czar to secure American technological dominance over China. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has emerged as a leading candidate for the czar position. Trump explicitly rejected international efforts to regulate the technology, labeling such proposals a globalist scheme and dismissing warnings of existential risks as a hoax.
In contrast, a coalition of over 20 nations, led by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, urged for global oversight to ensure humans remain in control. Simultaneously, CEOs Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic briefed the UN Security Council, warning that poorly managed AI could pose a risk to humanity. While Altman and Amodei advocated for global safety standards and a potential slowdown in development, the Trump administration maintained that such constraints would cede a critical advantage to China.
