Trump proposes renaming artificial intelligence to super intelligence at UN

President Trump stood before the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, and did something no world leader has attempted before: he tried to rename an entire field of technology. Artificial intelligence, he declared, will now be called “super intelligence” in all US government documents. He encouraged every other nation on Earth to do the same. The reasoning? Trump argued that the word “artificial” implies the technology is somehow fake or inferior. “Super intelligence,” in his view, better captures what the technology actually represents. A Truth Social poll picked the name The rebrand didn’t come from a panel of computer scientists or a Pentagon working group. It came from a public poll on Truth Social, where users were asked to choose between alternatives including “Superior Intelligence” and “Extreme Intelligence.” The winning entry: “super intelligence.” There’s an irony worth noting. In the field Trump is renaming, “superintelligence” already has a specific meaning. It refers to a hypothetical future AI system that surpasses human cognitive abilities across every domain. Researchers have spent years debating whether such a system is decades away or centuri...