President Donald Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social that he will soon “be officially BANNING the term, ‘AI/Artificial Intelligence,’ in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy.”
For over a month now , the president has been on a public crusade to rebrand “artificial intelligence” by giving it a new name, and the name he landed on is “Super Intelligence”—two words in title case. A September 29 executive order requires federal officials to use it. Further action “banning” it, as opposed to merely making its usage standard by executive order, suggests he’ll have to bolster the previous order by adding some kind of enforcement mechanism.
His latest Truth Social post seems to have been triggered by frustration with the Wall Street Journal, which, say what you will about it, refers to artificial intelligence as “artificial intelligence.”
“When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name…