Trump: You're 'The Enemy' If You Say Artificial Intelligence Instead of Super Intelligence
The Facts
- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday wrote on Truth Social that the White House considers anyone who uses "Artificial Intelligence" rather than the "highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,'" to be "THE ENEMY!"
- Trump didn't state what the consequences would be. The White House updated its AI.gov site Thursday to display "SI.gov," though the URL didn't change.
- This comes after Trump on Sept. 29 signed an executive order directing federal departments and agencies to use "Super Intelligence" in official communications. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy website still refers to artificial intelligence.
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The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
Calling a machine that drafts essays, plans meals and tutors algebra in seconds "artificial" sells it short. Trump recognizes that the tech has outgrown the label and renaming things is hardly tyranny. Trump has renamed other things and the world has kept turning. The meltdown over one word says more about reflexive opposition than any real threat.
Anti-Trump narrative
Words have meaning, and "artificial intelligence" has carried a precise one for about 70 years. Swapping it for a branding slogan makes language less useful, not more. Superintelligence already describes something specific: machines that outperform humans. Turning vocabulary into a loyalty test while Americans die for lack of affordable health care is a grotesque sense of priorities.
