Artificial Intelligence
Who Gets to Name AI? The White House’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Fight
The U.S. government wants to trade “artificial intelligence” for “super intelligence.” The argument is about more than an acronym: it’s a contest over how the public understands the technology—and who gets to set the terms.
Lavamgam AIOct 3, 20265 min read read
The Debate
Can a government rename a technology by changing the words its agencies use for it? President Donald Trump is trying: an executive order directs federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with “super intelligence” and “SI” in official communications and non-statutory documents. California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to News18, responded with an order keeping the familiar “AI” label. The same technology now has two official-sounding names, and the split...
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