US President Donald Trump said Washington would formally start referring to artificial intelligence as ‘super intelligence’, after hosting some of the biggest names in technology at the White House on Tuesday.
Trump told reporters after the meeting that he planned to sign a document later in the day formalising the change, saying those in the room agreed the word ‘artificial’ doesn’t fit the technology.
“We’re going to be signing a document today at about 5 o’clock, renaming artificial intelligence, because it’s not artificial. We all agree on that. And we’re going to be renaming it super intelligence, officially renaming it,” he said.
The president described the discussions as ‘very productive, extremely friendly’, saying those at the meeting shared an interest in keeping the US at the forefront of the rapidly developing industry.
“There are those that say it’s bigger than the Industrial Revolution. Now, I don’t know if that’s so, but everyone seems to think it is and it could be substantially bigger,” he added.
Trump also used the meeting to push for further expansion of data centres across the United States.
He argued that communities hosting the facilities could benefit from investment and tax revenues, while warning that companies could build elsewhere if projects were blocked.
“The areas with data centres have become very rich,” Trump said, adding that technology companies could make host communities “really financially beneficial and otherwise beneficial.”
The White House gathering brought together executives from many of the companies driving the global AI race, including Elon Musk, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI president Greg Brockman.
Trump publicly pushed the new terminology at the UN General Assembly last week, saying US government documents should use ‘super intelligence’ instead of artificial intelligence. The State Department subsequently instructed diplomats in its Bureau of International Organisation Affairs to adopt the term.
Source: Viory
