Trump Rebrands AI to "Super Intelligence" at UNGA, Vowing Deregulation to Win Tech Race

Speaking at the 81st United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. government will formally replace the term "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" (SI) across all official federal documentation. Trump argued the descriptor "artificial" inaccurately diminishes the technology's real-world power, framing SI as a transformation poised to surpass the scale of both the Industrial Revolution and the internet.
Trump firmly rejected international proposals for centralized, multilateral AI governance frameworks, labeling them restrictive while asserting that the United States currently leads China "by a lot." He emphasized an aggressively pro-growth agenda designed to avoid regulatory guardrails that could slow domestic compute expansion, declaring that "whoever wins SI, wins."
The announcement follows recent White House initiatives—including the planned formation of an "AI Force" and the rollout of extensive domestic data center infrastructure—reinforcing an administration strategy centered on uninhibited private capital deployment and technological primacy over foreign adversaries.