Within the framework of the 81st General Assembly of the United Nationsthe president of the United States, donald trumpannounced that the government of his country stop using the term “artificial intelligence” (AI) to name it officially “Superintelligence” (YEAH). As detailed during his speech on September 22, this new nomenclature is will apply to all official documents of the US administration. In addition, the president expressed his desire that the rest of the world adopt this change, considering it a much more precise term.
Trump’s argument is based on a conceptual and strategic redefinition of technology. The president maintained that the word “artificial” makes intelligence “sounds false”. Likewise, he justified the measure within a strong deregulation policycategorically rejecting any attempt at control or international globalist scheme over technological development. During his speech, he defined the technological career as a key competence by stating that “Whoever wins superintelligence, wins”ensuring that the United States leads China by a wide margin.
Superior, extreme or supreme
The decision announced at the UN was preceded on September 19 by a call from Trump on his social networks X and Truth Social for his followers to choose a new name among the options. “Higher Intelligence”, “Extreme Intelligence” and “Supreme Intelligence”. Curiously, the alternative “Superintelligence” was not part of the options submitted for consultation. On that same day, the president presented the initiative for a “AI Force” (AI Force) and described fears about the existential risks that this technology could represent for humanity as a “hoax.”
The measure garnered immediate criticism in the scientific and technological field. Specialists in the matter remember that The word “superintelligence” already has a precise technical definition: a hypothetical system capable of vastly surpassing human performance in almost any cognitive discipline. Various analysts warn that renaming current tools and chatbots under the label “YES” creates the false impression that the technology has already reached a state of finished development that does not yet exist.
After the intervention at the United Nations, The White House did not release any executive order or official directive. to effectively implement the name change. Institutional sites such as ai.gov and current federal laws—such as the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020— continue to officially use the concept of artificial intelligence.