Trump Addresses United Nations to Rebrand Artificial Intelligence as "Super Intelligence"

President Donald Trump has waded into the AI debate with a lexical proclamation: AI shouldn’t be called AI.

“Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence,” he began in a post on his social media site Truth Social on Saturday, seemingly apropos of nothing.

“A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI).”

Today Trump used an address at the United Nations to make the term official.

“From this point ​forward, all of United States documents, and hopefully the world’s ​will be changed ​to use the much more ‌accurate ⁠term ‘super’ as opposed to artificial,” he said. “So it’s super intelligence.”

It’s quintessential Trump: he loves assigning new names to things — often the derogative kind, directed at his political foes — and indulging in these kinds of meaningless digressions, entertaining apparently whatever whim pops into his head. Do “many people” actually think the term “artificial intelligence” is “inaccurate,” or “inelegant”? If they do, it’s because it anthropomorphizes something that isn’t intelligent — not, as Trump presumes, because it’s actually a form of super-duper-hyper-mega intelligence.