US President Donald Trump has directed the federal government to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in future government documents. The article says Trump argued that “artificial” could mislead people into thinking the technology is fake, and has encouraged other countries to adopt the terminology. The White House released a summary of his speech, but no detailed implementation plan was provided.
It remains unclear which department would revise existing material, which documents would be affected or when the change would take effect. The administration has also not explained how the proposed wording would be handled in laws, technical standards or official forms. The article notes that “superintelligence” already has an established academic meaning: a theoretical system whose cognitive abilities substantially exceed those of humans across a wide range of domains.
Using it as a general label for today’s AI systems could therefore create confusion by blurring the distinction between existing machine-learning technologies and hypothetical systems with far greater capabilities. The change would be semantic and would not itself alter the capabilities of systems, regulatory requirements or industry practices.