Donald Trump Orders White House To Label AI Critics Enemies, Demands “Superintelligence” Term

Trump escalates AI rebrand

U.S. President Donald Trump said on October 8 via his Truth Social account that the White House regards anyone who uses the term “artificial intelligence (AI)” instead of “superintelligence (SI)” as an enemy.

Trump said he defines SI as “extremely superior intelligence,” and he argued that the term “artificial” in AI fails to reflect the technology’s level of advancement.

Trump previously signed an executive order on September 29 requiring federal departments and agencies to use the term SI instead of AI in official documents.

Trump also attended the “New Golden Age Summit” at the Donald J. Trump Peace Institute (USIP) in Washington, D.C., where he unveiled a $6 billion (approximately 8 trillion Korean won) investment and support plan for science and technology.

Trump said the White House’s position in the same Truth Social post that “The White House considers anyone who uses the term ‘artificial intelligence (AI)’ instead of the widely accepted new and more accurate term ‘superintelligence (SI)’ as an enemy.”

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Industry responses and disputes

Elon Musk said on X that SpaceX would rename its AI unit, SpaceXAI, to SpaceXSI, and Business Insider reported that SpaceXAI’s X account still said “SpaceXAI” as of Thursday afternoon. OpenAI President Greg Brockman said the company “builds artificial intelligence” during a White House panel discussion where Nvidia CEO Jensen Wang corrected himself when he said “AI” instead of “SI.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the Politico Decoded podcast, “No plans to do that,” when asked about renaming the company.

The BBC reported that demand for “.si” domain names surged after the executive order, with 44,000 websites with the “.si” ending registered in September. Trump’s rebranding also drew criticism in the New Scientist piece, which quoted Trump saying, “The use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake, it makes it sound fake, and it is not fake.”

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Policy push and funding

Trump’s September 29 executive order required federal departments and agencies “to the maximum extent permitted by law” to use “‘Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in official correspondence, public communications, websites,” among other official communications. The executive order did not apply to private-sector companies like OpenAI, and Business Insider said the White House has no legal authority to enforce such a measure. 조선일보 reported that for AI research, 11 companies including NVIDIA and OpenAI would provide $2.4 billion worth of computing resources for research purposes.

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조선일보 also reported that NASA, in collaboration with the Department of Energy, plans to develop a nuclear-powered spacecraft for Mars exploration and a surface reactor on the Moon by 2028. The same 조선일보 report said Trump awarded the highest science and technology medals to Elon Musk, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

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