Trump rebrand AI as super intelligence 

Trump rebrand AI as super intelligence

US President Donald Trump says the term artificial intelligence (AI) makes the technology “sound fake” and wants it to be called “super intelligence”.

“Welcome to the new world of super intelligence – SI,” Trump said during a wide-ranging speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

While some people close to the president immediately started to use the term, experts have told the BBC it is unlikely to gain widespread traction in the industry because it is a name typically used to refer to more advanced systems.

The announcement is Trump’s latest rebranding move after he had the names of Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico changed on US maps and federal communications.

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

In the past week, Trump asked his social media followers to vote on other potential new names for AI including superior intelligence, extreme intelligence and supreme intelligence.

After a series of polls on his Truth Social platform, super intelligence came out as the winner.

The purpose of renaming AI – and whether it will be adopted by the technology industry – is unclear.