US President Donald Trump proposed using “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence” for AI in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Arguing that the word “artificial” makes the technology appear artificial or unreal, Trump called for official US documents to be changed and for “SI” to be adopted worldwide instead of the abbreviation AI. However, the statement does not constitute a signed presidential executive order, a federal regulation, or a binding directive; how the change would be implemented was not specified. Trump opposed global regulations slowing the US’s development of artificial intelligence and said the technology could be as influential as the Industrial Revolution and the internet. Trump, who said risks would be monitored and that the Department of Justice could step in if necessary, emphasized that he would encourage rather than limit innovation.
Why it matters
From a technology policy perspective, the proposal signals the US administration’s approach to artificial intelligence and its preferred framework rather than introducing a change that takes effect directly. It has not yet been explained which institutions would take what kind of action to change the terms used in official documents and the abbreviations adopted internationally. Therefore, the short-term result of the statement may not be a change to the existing terminology, but rather the question of how public institutions and other countries will respond to this preference. The speech also set out opposition to global regulations that could limit technological development, alongside the monitoring of potential risks. The central issue left unresolved is which concrete policy tools will be used to balance the goal of encouraging innovation with risk oversight.
Background
Trump is not a new name in the FikirPilot archive: we have published 22 news articles mentioning this name in the last 90 days; the most recent one is dated September 23, 2026.