What's with Donald Trump and renaming things? First, the Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of America — in US federal documents, if not globally. Then Lake Ontario became Lake America. Now he wants to rebrand the defining technology of our time: artificial intelligence (AI).

Earlier this month, the US president claimed on his Truth Social platform that the term artificial intelligence is "inaccurate" and "ineloquent." He said "superior," "extreme," or "supreme" intelligence were better alternatives.

In a three-day social media poll, Trump fans chose "Super Intelligence" (SI) by about 65% to 35% (for Superior Intelligence), allowing him to announce at the United Nations General Assembly last week that US federal documents would use his new term going forward.

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'AI is not superintelligence'

The tech industry has yet to adopt the phrase, however, while academics…