President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the US executive branch to stop using the term artificial intelligence and refer instead to Super Intelligence. Under the order, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will use only the new term. The order was signed after a White House luncheon with technology executives and government officials.
Trump announced the change at an event launching America.gov on Tuesday. He said the word super is the best and simplest word of all, and that Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited the White House last week, also likes it. Trump said the technology should not be called artificial because it is powerful and brilliant, and he compared the word artificial to fake news. He first raised plans for the rebrand in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week, aiming to calm fears that AI is advancing too quickly and poses a safety risk.
The order does not require executive agencies to revise past regulations or documents. However, it could still amount to a significant and unusual shift, because superintelligence is one of several industry terms for especially powerful forms of artificial intelligence, while the administration is seeking to use it as a replacement for a broader statutory definition of AI. US officials are expected not to acknowledge the terms artificial intelligence or AI in relevant settings.
Trump signed the order after hosting the luncheon to discuss what he now officially calls Super Intelligence. In brief public remarks after the meeting, he was flanked by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, with other attendees surrounding them. Trump described the lunch as very productive and extremely friendly.
Trump said there is a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and that regulation comes automatically through the Department of Justice and the FBI. He said technology companies will work to make communities happy by providing resources and economic support at the local level, where firms have faced the most hurdles in building the massive data centers needed to run their services. He added that data centers are going to be very popular.
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