Silicon Valley companies adopt Trump’s preferred term “super intelligence”
US President Donald Trump wants artificial intelligence to be called “super intelligence.” Several powerful tech leaders have already adjusted their language or company names to match.
The administration of US President Donald Trump is trying to change the tech industry’s core terminology, replacing “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence.” According to The Verge, several influential Silicon Valley executives are going along with the idea, even though most of the wider public still says AI.
The order and the warning
At a summit attended by leading tech figures, an executive order was announced requiring government agencies to use the term “super intelligence.” Trump stated that the White House considers anyone who uses “Artificial Intelligence” rather than “Super Intelligence” to be the enemy.
How companies responded
Elon Musk, who owns space and AI businesses, promised to rename SpaceXAI as SpaceXSI. Marc Benioff, head of the software company Salesforce, announced that AIForce would become SIForce, within hours of Trump’s statement.
Jensen Huang, chief executive of chipmaker Nvidia, attended the summit and has said he believes the danger posed by AI is overblown. Nvidia pledged $1 billion to scientific advancement, saying it would include “super intelligence research.”
The latest to follow is Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. In a post calling for an “emergency brake” for AI, he repeatedly referred to the technology as “super intelligence.” Nadella attended the same summit as Huang, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, Dario Amodei and Musk.
Background
During Trump’s first term, relations between Silicon Valley and the White House were far more contentious. In his second term, the industry has repeatedly tried to win favor with the administration.
