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5. Trump wants 'artificial intelligence' replaced with 'super intelligence'
In an executive order Tuesday, Trump made it administration policy to use the term “super intelligence” and the acronym “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” and “AI.” He argued that the older terms are outdated because “the extraordinary technologies being pioneered by American innovators far exceed what was envisioned when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ first came into use.”
“The term ‘Super Intelligence’ more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies,” Trump wrote. “The capabilities of today’s frontier systems do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence. They increasingly amplify human ingenuity and unlock new forms of creativity, empowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible across science, medicine, and nearly every other domain of human endeavor.”
In addition to directing executive branch agencies to adopt the new term, Trump signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence alongside the leaders of several technology firms, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk.
The document drew ridicule on social media because the text beneath Trump’s signature contains a typo, identifying him as “President of the Unites States.”
The accord calls on companies developing super intelligence to “implement robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.” It also asks them to empower “an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.”
Under the accord, companies will “partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended." They must “designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversee and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
