{"id":796382,"date":"2026-10-08T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796382\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:26:13","slug":"trump-declares-anyone-who-uses-the-term-artificial-intelligence-to-be-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796382\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump declares anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence to be \u2018The Enemy!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump on Thursday opened up a new front in his ongoing war against commonly used terms and geographic names by warning that anyone referring to Large Language Models such as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT or Anthropic\u2019s Claude as \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u201d would earn themselves a place on his enemies list.<\/p>\n

Writing on Truth Social, he declared that the White House \u201cconsiders anyone that uses the term, \u2018Artificial Intelligence,\u2019 as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, \u2018Super Intelligence,\u2019 THE ENEMY!\u201d<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s outburst-cum-veiled threat landed just over a week after he signed an executive order directing executive branch agencies to begin referring to artificial intelligence, which is now embedded across the federal government, as \u201csuper intelligence\u201d following a lunch with leaders in the AI industry,<\/a> including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei and others.<\/p>\n

That widely mocked directive <\/a>followed bizarre remarks to the U.N. General Assembly in which he declared that the U.S. \u201ctotally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme\u201d for regulating AI and declaring that the technology would be \u201chereinafter officially called super intelligence\u201d because \u201cuse of the word artificial makes intelligence fake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing,\u201d said Trump, who the week before had launched a poll in his Truth Social feed over the weekend asking respondents to vote for either \u201cSuper Intelligence,\u201d \u201cSuperior Intelligence,\u201d or \u201cExtreme Intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The president\u2019s latest linguistic ultimatum is the most recent example of his ongoing effort to change the minds of voters \u2014 including many of his own supporters \u2014 who\u2019ve increasingly soured on the industry that has tied itself tightly to his unpopular administration.<\/p>\n

In recent months, that souring has shown up in nearly every poll that asks about AI. A Quinnipiac University survey of 1,032 registered voters taken late last month found 73 percent oppose “the building of an AI data center in your community,” including 55 percent of Republicans, and 79 percent said safety matters more than keeping the United States at the forefront of AI development. <\/p>\n

Just 25 percent approve of Trump’s handling of the technology against 58 percent who disapprove, and 71 percent said they’d be more likely to back a candidate who supports “stricter guardrails” on it \u2014 a figure that includes a majority of Republicans, at 52 percent, and nearly three-quarters of independents. <\/p>\n

A separate Fox News poll of 1,211 registered voters conducted earlier in September put overall opinion of AI at 37 percent favorable to 60 percent unfavorable, a net rating of minus 23 that has worsened from minus 11 in April and minus 9 in July. The same survey found voters trust Democrats over Republicans to handle data centers by 14 points, and that among those who oppose the facilities anywhere, Democrats lead the generic ballot by at least 19 points. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s demand for widespread adoption of \u201csuper intelligence\u201d in lieu of AI comes just over a month after his last attempt at linguistic coercion, an executive order directing the executive branch to rename Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The order to rename one of the five Great Lakes <\/a>along the U.S.-Canada border came in a fit of rage over his ongoing trade war with Ottawa and echoed a similar move from early in his second term when he attempted to unilaterally rename the Gulf of Mexico as the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the president does have the authority to direct how the government recognizes the names of places and landmarks, he cannot force Canada or individual citizens on either side of the border to follow his preferred naming conventions.<\/p>\n

The same goes for use of the term \u201csuper intelligence.\u201d He can direct the government to use it but he cannot force Americans \u2014 or anyone else \u2014 to use his preferred terminology. <\/p>\n

The Independent has reached out to NVIDIA, Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Tesla and Anthropic regarding whether the companies have any plans to use the president\u2019s new terminology in promotional materials or other customer communications; none responded.<\/p>\n

But the White House has touted a short list of tech CEOs who\u2019d used the phrase, including Elon Musk and NVIDIA\u2019s Jensen Huang. <\/p>\n

Complicating the matter, the word superintelligence already means an AI system that surpasses human intellect and ability across multiple domains in couding reasoning, social skills and scientific research \u2014 a step toward the kind of rogue AI that many fear, sparking the calls for guardrails and kill switches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,33792,947,36759,80,11237,229,86,33794,56,54,158,55,2866],"class_list":["post-796382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bestof","tag-dc","tag-essential","tag-government","tag-horizontal","tag-politics","tag-technology","tag-topix","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}