POLICY · REGULATION · #1230
Trump orders U.S. government to call AI “Super Intelligence”
Media reports say President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. executive branch to use the term “Super Intelligence” in official websites, policy documents, and press releases instead of “artificial intelligence” or “AI,” and that agencies won’t be required to rewrite past regulations. The announcement followed a White House luncheon with tech CEOs and included public remarks referencing Xi Jinping, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk.
KEY POINTS
- Media reports say President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S.
- executive branch to use the term “Super Intelligence” in official websites, policy documents, and press releases instead of “artificial intelligence” or “AI,” and that agencies won’t be required to rewrite past regulations.
- The announcement followed a White House luncheon with tech CEOs and included public remarks referencing Xi Jinping, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk.
WHY IT MATTERS
If accurate, the order is a symbolic and procedural change that could affect how agencies describe, regulate, and communicate about AI, with potential legal and policy implications.
SOURCES & TIMELINE
2Seventy years ago last summer, a group of scientists met at Dartmouth College to discuss a wild idea—that machines might one day be capable of human-like thought processes. One of those scientists, John McCarthy, had suggested a name for the new field: artificial intelligence . It stuck. When you search Google Scholar for “artificial intelligence,” approximately 7,420,000 results appear. The term is utterly ubiquitou…
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