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Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water

Meet ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘globalist scheme’ – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it

US president Donald Trump has decided the term “artificial intelligence” must be abandoned, in favour of his preferred term “superintelligence.”

“The word ‘artificial’ makes intelligence fake, it makes it sound fake,” Trump told the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday. “From this point forward, all United States documents and hopefully the world will be changed to use the much more accurate term ‘super’ as opposed to ‘artificial.’”

The president allowed that the acronym “SI” might be used as a substitute for his polysyllabic suggestion, seemingly without a thought for that acronym already being taken by the world’s system integrators. The leader of the free world also appears not to have given much thought to how the term might be adapted: The Register can see the term “AI slop” evolving into “superslop” – a term that might have wide applicability to debate on how best to name the technology.

Trump also offered the following comment about AI regulation: “The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for … artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now  … here and after officially called superintelligence.” He also said the danger of AI is a ”hoax,” as is anthropogenic climate change, despite the USA’s own National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last month reporting that July was the warmest month on record for the contiguous United States.