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Trump says he will ban everyone from using the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’

By Rachel Dobkin2 min readThe Independent
Trump says he will ban everyone from using the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’Trump says he will ban everyone from using the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’
President Donald Trump has promised to ban everyone from using the phrase 'artificial intelligence' as he continues to promote a more favorable term — 'super intelligence' (AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has brought his push to rename artificial intelligence to super intelligence to the next level

President Donald Trump has promised to ban everyone from using the phrase “artificial intelligence” as he continues to promote a more favorable term — “super intelligence.”

“When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be.

“In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, ‘AI/Artificial Intelligence,’ in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon.

As AI infiltrates many aspects of people’s everyday lives, from asking chatbots what to cook for dinner to how to form a work email or breakup text, the term has become a household name — making it hard to shake.

But Trump is determined to do just that.

President Donald Trump has promised to ban everyone from using the phrase 'artificial intelligence' as he continues to promote a more favorable term — 'super intelligence'
President Donald Trump has promised to ban everyone from using the phrase 'artificial intelligence' as he continues to promote a more favorable term — 'super intelligence' (AFP via Getty Images)

Earlier this month, Trump bizarrely stated in another Truth Social post that the White House considers anyone who uses the term “artificial intelligence” over “super intelligence” to be “THE ENEMY!”

Trump’s recent push to rename AI comes at a time when experts in the field are sounding the alarm over the potential risk to humanity that the technology poses.

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