Donald Trump calls AI ‘super intelligence’ as leaders jostle over dangers

US President Donald Trump has announced that the US government will rename artificial intelligence to "super intelligence" in official communications. He made the announcement at the UN General Assembly, where world leaders are discussing the dangers of the rapidly advancing technology. According to the New Straits Times and Free Malaysia Today, Trump argued that the term "artificial" undersold the technology and expressed hope that the rest of the world would adopt the new term.

Trump also compared warnings about AI safety to warnings about climate change, saying that the US "totally rejects" attempts to control AI, as reported by the New Straits Times and Free Malaysia Today. The renaming of AI is the latest in a series of renamings pursued by the Trump administration, which has previously renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" and Lake Ontario to "Lake America".

The issue of AI has become a major topic at the UN General Assembly, with incidents of the technology falling out of human control and warnings from company insiders drawing global alarm and calls for better government supervision of the industry, according to the New Straits Times and Free Malaysia Today. CBS News reports that Trump told world leaders that the US rejects efforts to rein in AI.

Brief written by urgent.news from Toronto Sun, Crikey, New Straits Times, Free Malaysia Today, CBS News — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.