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In a UN General Assembly speech on September 22, 2026, Donald Trump announced that the United States will "officially" rename artificial intelligence to "super intelligence" (SI), arguing that the word "artificial" makes intelligence sound fake. He framed the change as more accurate and rhetorically stronger, saying he would try to use any available power to update U.S. documents and hoping other countries follow. The remarks came amid a broader address that attacked Iran, "globalists," climate science, and transgender people, and invoked past renaming moves and quick map-label changes as precedents for asserting unilateral naming power.
Trump used the name change to advance a political argument: that warnings about AI apocalypse come from the same critics who he claims have been wrong on climate, Russia, and Ukraine, and that whoever "wins" SI will win geopolitically. He also asserted U.S. leadership over China in AI, promised to encourage - not stifle - development, and said the Department of Justice and other law enforcement bodies would monitor the technology if necessary. The speech mixed grand claims about SI’s transformative scale, references to prior culture-war themes, and uncertainty about the actual authority to mandate such a renaming.
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