Donald Trump Claims He Will Sign Document Changing 'Artificial Intelligence' to 'Super Intelligence' in Government Language
U.S. President Donald Trump stated he will sign a document changing the term "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" in government language, arguing that "artificial" sounds fake, while the technology is not false. He mentioned he would sign it around 5 PM and that "we all agree on this."
This statement was reiterated to reporters after a meeting with tech leaders at the White House and the launch of america.gov. Last week, he announced at the United Nations General Assembly that U.S. documents will henceforth use "super intelligence" or "si," and he hopes other countries will follow suit; he also rejected any "globalist schemes" to control the technology, stating it should be encouraged rather than restrained, as it will be greater than the Industrial Revolution.
The State Department's Bureau of International Organizations has requested diplomats to use this terminology. A White House press release stated that the UN General Assembly will henceforth officially refer to it as "Super Intelligence." As of a few days after the UN General Assembly, a standalone renaming order has not yet appeared in the publicly available presidential executive order catalog; today's statement is a move to formalize the verbal agreement into a signing action.
In academic and industrial contexts, superintelligence refers to a form of intelligence that surpasses human capabilities, which is not the same meaning as the general term artificial intelligence in the industry. Xi Jinping did not adopt this new term in his public statements during his Washington visit; Trump claimed he mentioned the renaming to him and felt that Xi "seemed to like it." Attendees at the lunch included Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Alex Karp.
The renaming is linked to the notion of "never stifling": security advocates discussed issues of uncontrolled agents and delayed models at the table, while the official language changed the term from "artificial" to "super." The federal site america.gov was referred to by him as a preview of what si can do.
In market mechanisms, this is narrative pricing rather than product pricing: those buying do not expect regulation to impose hard ceilings under the name of "artificial intelligence risk," while those selling are providing the White House's vocabulary. Funding narratives continue to flow towards computing power and model expansion; beneficiaries are chip and platform companies that want to maintain export and construction pace, while those under pressure are those wanting to write international governance or domestic slowdown into texts. The event-driven aspect is the signing forecast after the UN General Assembly's tone-setting, not a new technical assessment.
The government document's terminology change will enter diplomatic notes, procurement texts, and departmental guidelines, making "si" the default label for the U.S. Official labels do not change model capabilities but alter the nouns that opponents must respond to in legislative hearings and international negotiations.
Source: Public Information
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Trump's renaming is not starting today. The UN General Assembly first declared "artificial equals fake" as national policy, the State Department then instructed diplomats to change terminology, and today a signing was previewed after a tech lunch. This same method has been seen in the verbal renaming of the Department of Defense to the War Department: first occupying the official wording, then getting institutions accustomed to recognizing it. He rejects global co-management and a slowdown; the renaming turns opposition to regulation into a linguistic issue—without "artificial" in the name, discussions should not assume it is instrumental or stoppable.
The capital path is to empower the industry with national vocabulary. Chip, cloud, and model companies have just taken their seats at the main table, and the president rewrites them from "potentially regulated industries" to "must-lead national strength" with si. America.gov packages federal services into the same language, and government procurement and external rhetoric will follow suit. The motivation is the U.S.-China competition framework: if Beijing continues to say artificial intelligence while Washington switches to super intelligence, bilateral documents will encounter translation politics, making cooperative governance harder to initiate.
Analogous terms include "climate change" versus "climate cycles," "illegal immigration" versus "undocumented," and the military renaming projects to reorder budget priorities. The industry position is a discourse battle during a policy vacuum: some in laboratories see superintelligence as an apocalyptic threshold, while the White House treats it as an official brand. Hinton has called for Congress to act within about a year, and the UN General Assembly and signing forecast have shifted the timeline to encourage construction.
The structural judgment is that regulatory changes are being replaced by vocabulary first. The mechanism is to first change the nouns that can be written into all documents, then make "global control schemes" an offense against an object already defined as super and therefore unshareable. Pricing power temporarily remains with the namers: whoever defines how official documents are named dictates that the next legislation must first debate the name rather than computing power and accidents. The real rules still depend on whether the executive order text includes procurement, export, and security assessments, not just podium discussions.
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