President Donald Trump is apparently sticking to his guns with his push to rebrand artificial intelligence (AI) to “super intelligence” (SI).
When New York Post reporter Miranda Devine, a major supporter of Trump, used the acronym AI during Monday’s episode of her “Pod Force One” podcast, the president quickly jumped in to correct her.
“AI, I think they’re concerned about—” Devine began to ask, before Trump interjected.
“SI,” Trump replied with a smile.
Devine immediately apologized during the interview.
“Sorry! Sorry, super intelligence,” Devine said abashedly. “These bots, these agents attacking infrastructure. Is that something that you think is real?”
Trump dismissed any concerns.
“So we’re leading in super intelligence, we’re leading in SI, and we’re leading by a lot. We’re beating China, we’re beating everybody in the whole world. No, it’s going to be great,” the president explained.
Trump admitted that “there’s some negative” aspects to AI, but claimed the positive outweighs the negative.
“We’re coming up with medical cures and things that nobody would have had for maybe 100 years,” he continued, before adding, “Whoever wins in SI will end up winning, and we’re leading by a lot.”
Trump signed an executive order on super intelligence in September, instructing all government departments and agencies to replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “super Intelligence” in official communications.
More than a week later, the president went a step further by declaring that he considers anyone who does not adopt his preferred term of super intelligence to be “THE ENEMY” in a Truth Social post.
In a follow-up post weeks later, Trump called out The Wall Street Journal for not using his new terminology and announced his intent to soon ban the term artificial intelligence due to its “inaccuracy.”
Watch Trump and Devine’s exchange below.