Trump says US will call AI 'super intelligence' in government documents
In a UN General Assembly speech the president also rejected calls for an international body to oversee AI, saying the technology should be encouraged rather than reined in.
US government documents will use the term "super intelligence" in place of "artificial intelligence", President Trump said in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. The word artificial makes the intelligence sound fake, he said. Reuters reported the remarks, as did The Verge and Politico.
Trump also rejected calls for a global entity to oversee AI, Politico reported. He dismissed an international agreement to put guardrails around the technology, according to Bloomberg. "We will only encourage super intelligence," he said in a clip posted by the account atrupar. "We're going to encourage it, not rein it in."
The speech repeated a position Trump has stated before. He compared people warning about AI risk to those who predicted deaths from global warming, saying they are "now saying AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us". Reuters described the remarks as a repeat of his claim that AI warnings are a hoax.
Trump said the technology is bigger than the Industrial Revolution and that whoever wins super intelligence wins, according to an account from Clash Report. "It's actually amazing, but we have to be careful," he said in a passage carried by CNBC. The two lines sit oddly together and he did not reconcile them.
The rename comes the same day OpenAI published a proposal asking the US to lead work on global AI standards. Whether the change of term reaches beyond federal documents, and which agencies it binds, is not addressed in any of the accounts. The White House has issued no written guidance.