Trump vows to ban the term 'artificial intelligence' from official documents
US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'
President Trump says he will officially ban the term 'AI/Artificial Intelligence' from all relevant documents, calling it inaccurate, and wants everyone to say 'Super Intelligence' (SI) instead. He signed an executive order in September directing the executive branch to use SI, told the UN General Assembly the U.S. would rename AI to SI, and created a 'Super Intelligence Force' led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton.
The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake. It is not fake. It's actually amazing.
- mullingitover
Historic, unprecedented failure of leadership.
The price of diesel skyrocketing[1]. The producer price index, a leading indicator of inflation, doing the same[2]. Consumer sentiment cratering[3]. Real weekly earnings plunging[4].
These things aren't even normally the president's direct fault, but in this case it 1000% is.
So it's understandable why he's desperately jangling every set of keys he can get his hands on as the mid-term elections are happening. It can and will get dumber for this lame duck.
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASDESW
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIACO
- A_D_E_P_T
Those .si domains his cronies are squatting on aren't selling, I guess.
- dofm
This is because someone's told him he probably can't rename New Mexico?
- rbanffy
I’ll continue using the term, the same way I will continue deadnaming Twitter.
- tartuffe78
Finally, something voters care about.
- tavavex
I know asking meta questions about HN is not seen in the best light here, but I really am curious about how tied up in knots the reasoning must be of someone flagging this post about AI (HN's primary topic as of 2026).
- everdrive
More meaningless symbolic gestures rather than any sort of actual policy.
- k310
The party must rename everything and rewrite history (1984)
From Emmanuel Goldstein's work:
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM [0]
PDF download: [1]
History must be rewritten to support the party.
As a web page: [2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oli...
[1] https://archive.org/download/the-theory-and-practice-of-olig...
[2] https://genius.com/Emmanuel-goldstein-the-theory-and-practic...