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Trump Renames AI to 'Super Intelligence,' Tech Leaders Sign Safety Accord
- •US President Donald Trump officially renamed "Artificial Intelligence" to "Super Intelligence" (SI) across the federal government, arguing the technology has outgrown its "artificial" label.
- •The change followed a White House luncheon with top tech CEOs including Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos, and Lisa Su.
- •Trump emphasized the US must lead in SI, calling it potentially "bigger than the Industrial Revolution" and deserving a name reflecting its scale and importance.
- •While Trump's administration uses "Super Intelligence" as an umbrella term for current AI, in AI research, "superintelligence" refers to a hypothetical level where AI substantially exceeds human intellect across all domains.
- •The meeting also saw tech executives sign a voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, establishing a framework for AI safety with internal controls, external audits, and board-level oversight.
Key Questions Answered
President Donald Trump argued that the word "artificial" made the technology sound fake and that modern systems have outgrown that descriptor, prompting an executive order to officially replace "Artificial Intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" across the US federal government.
While the Trump administration uses "Super Intelligence" as a broad new umbrella term for current AI technology, AI researchers traditionally define superintelligence as a hypothetical future stage where machine intellect substantially exceeds human capabilities across virtually all domains.
Major tech executives, including the heads of Google, Meta, Nvidia, and OpenAI, signed a voluntary framework called the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, committing companies to maintain robust internal controls, external audits, and board-level oversight.
