The United States President Donald Trump is planning to officially ban the phrase “artificial intelligence” and its abbreviation “AI” across government documents, pushing federal agencies to use the term “super intelligence” (or “SI”) instead.
The capabilities of today’s frontier systems do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence.” “In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, ‘AI/Artificial Intelligence,’ in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy.
“When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. In a post, Trump criticised the label “AI” as inaccurate, arguing that “super intelligence” is a better description of the technology. The move builds on an executive order signed earlier, which instructed executive agencies to adopt “SI” in their official communications. The researchers and policymakers have pushed back against the change, noting that “superintelligence” has a specific meaning in tech, referring to machines smarter than humans, which doesn’t accurately describe today’s technology, according to the outlet. But this power has some limits, as according to the media outlet, such announcements and moves must align with federal statutes and constitutional requirements. “The president has some, but not unlimited, control over the words the federal government itself uses in its official documents, but he has no legal or constitutional authority to police the language choices of the Wall Street Journal or any other private institution or person,” Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and constitutional law expert, told Newsweek . Last month, an order signed by Trump read, “The extraordinary technologies being pioneered by American innovators far exceed what was envisioned when the term “Artificial Intelligence” first came into use.
