Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’
In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now "officially" renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence." Oddly, this wasn't one of the entries in the poll Trump posted a few days ago when he started on this tangent. Why is he saying this at all? Because, according to Trump, the word artificial makes intelligence fake. Is that what m
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Trump announced during a UN General Assembly speech that the US is "officially" renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence," claiming the word "artificial" makes the technology sound fake. According to Trump, the use of "super intelligence" or "SI" is more accurate, and US documents will be updated to reflect this new terminology. Trump has previously renamed other landmarks and geographical features through executive action, though he expressed uncertainty about whether this renaming will have actual power. The announcement was made alongside broader remarks about US competitiveness in AI development relative to other countries.
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