Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’
The Verge Richard Lawler ● Covered by 7 sources
Trump said the US is renaming AI to “super intelligence.” His reason: he thinks “artificial” makes it sound fake, which is a very Trump way to do language policy.
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At the UN General Assembly on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump used part of his speech to unload on Iran, “globalists,” climate change, and transgender people. Then he dropped in a new bit of branding: he said the US is now “officially” renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.”
The claim was strange even by Trump standards. It did not show up in the poll he posted a few days earlier when he first started this line of attack, which makes the whole thing feel less like policy and more like one of his trademark naming decrees.
Trump’s explanation was simple enough: the word artificial, he said, makes intelligence sound fake. That was the logic. Whether anyone else buys it is another matter.
He has done versions of this before. Trump has already declared new names for the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Superior, the Kennedy Center, and Denal… So this is less a one-off than a habit: take a place, thing, or idea, announce a new label, and act as if that settles it.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is pure label theater, and the joke is that it works because people keep treating the label as if it were policy. Renaming things is cheaper than governing them, which is why it’s such a popular sport in politics and in AI marketing alike. The only honest response is to ignore the paint job and look at what actually changed.
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