President Trump announced US documents will call AI super intelligence

Trump Renames Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence at UN

President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly that United States documents will now call artificial intelligence super intelligence. Speaking Tuesday in New York, the president said the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake when it clearly is not.

Trump declared, welcome to the new world of super intelligence, telling delegates the more accurate term should replace the old one. He said United States documents, and hopefully the world's, would adopt the phrase, pairing it with a pledge to encourage technology.

No official government order forcing the change from AI to SI has appeared, and a White House representative declined to clarify. Instead, the representative referred reporters to the president's United Nations remarks, which were widely reported across many major news outlets.

President Trump framed artificial intelligence as a global race, saying whoever wins super intelligence wins the entire competition between nations. He said the United States leads China by a large margin and pledged to keep that advantage in place going forward.

Trump Rejects Global Oversight and Regulating Artificial Intelligence

The president used the address to reject any international scheme to control artificial intelligence, which he now calls super intelligence. He said the United States would encourage the technology rather than rein it in, watching it through the Department of Justice.

Trump has rejected calls to regulate artificial intelligence in any meaningful way, and he insists that regulation would slow America's competition. The administration has spent the year trying to stop states from writing their own rules, offering only voluntary federal oversight instead.

Trump has previously renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and Lake Ontario to Lake America.

In the technology world, superintelligence already describes a hypothetical system that can outthink and outperform humans across all domains of interest. Philosopher Nick Bostrom defined it in a 2014 book as any intellect that greatly exceeds human cognitive performance in most areas.

Lawmakers Warn and Social Media Mocks the AI Rebrand

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would outlaw the systems Trump renamed. Geoffrey Hinton told senators at a closed briefing that Congress had maybe a year, but not much more, to act.

Three separate Senate AI bills, among them Senator Sanders' ban and a shutdown-switch measure from Senator John Kennedy, still have no clear timetable for a vote.

Social media reaction was swift, with Bluesky commenter Clay Jones joking that China is already quietly developing Super Duper Intelligence. Cartoonist Bill Amend, creator of FoxTrot, wrote that OpenAI lawyers are now scrambling to lock down OpenSI trademarks and web domains.

Matt Walsh, a far-right anti-trans activist, posted on X that he was already cringing at conservatives dutifully calling AI super intelligence. He called the effort bizarrely dystopian and the stupidest thing to focus on right before an election with high gas prices.

The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline stood at $4.47 on Tuesday, while diesel prices averaged $6.52 a gallon, according to AAA data.