President Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to announce a terminology change that would ripple through every corner of the federal government: artificial intelligence, he said, will now be called “super intelligence” in all official United States documents.
According to reporting from The Hill, Trump made the declaration unexpectedly during his speech before assembled world leaders, framing it as both a rebranding exercise and a rejection of international efforts to govern the technology.
‘Changing the Name’
“The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globality scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now, hereinafter called super intelligence,” Trump told the assembly. “Changing the name.”
The president’s objection, as he explained it, is rooted in the word “artificial” itself. He argued that the term unfairly diminishes the technology’s capabilities and misleads the public about what it actually does.
“The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake,” he continued. “It is not fake. It’s actually amazing. But we have to be careful. In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports.”
Trump said he hoped the change would not stop at the water’s edge. “From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world’s will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial,” he said.
He closed his remarks on the subject with a new abbreviation, delivered in the style of a product launch: “In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence — SI. Let’s see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better, and it’s much more accurate.”
A Poll and a Pending Czar
The U.N. remarks were not the first time the president has floated a new name for the technology. Breitbart News previously reported that Trump is creating an “AI Force” and naming a new AI czar. Around that time, he ran an informal poll on Truth Social asking his followers to help select a replacement term, offering “Superior Intelligence,” “Extreme Intelligence,” and “Supreme Intelligence” as options.
By Trump’s own account, “Supreme Intelligence” was trailing — not because of any policy disagreement, but because of its unfortunate verbal overlap with the Supreme Court.
The announcement lands at a moment when the world’s largest AI developers are simultaneously releasing increasingly powerful models and calling for industry regulation. David Sacks has argued that when AI titans such as Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk call for a slowdown, they are not acting out of altruism but out of a desire to entrench their own positions and insulate themselves from antitrust scrutiny — a dynamic the president recognizes, according to Breitbart News.
Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall has written the New York Times bestseller Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, which the outlet describes as a guide for how the MAGA movement can shape AI policy to benefit humanity without ceding control of the technology to Silicon Valley or allowing China to dominate the field.
A Global Stage, a Unilateral Message
Trump’s decision to unveil the name change at the United Nations — rather than at a domestic event or through an executive order — gave the announcement a distinctly international framing. His language about rejecting a “globality scheme” suggested that any multinational governance structure for AI would face opposition from Washington, even as he invited other countries to adopt the American terminology voluntarily.
Whether other nations follow the rebranding remains to be seen. There is no indication from the source material that any foreign government has committed to using “super intelligence” in its own official documents, and the president’s phrasing — “hopefully the world’s” — made clear the change begins as a unilateral American decision.
What the rename means in practice for federal agencies, procurement documents, and statutes that already reference artificial intelligence was not detailed in the address. The president did not specify a timeline for the shift or describe any implementing mechanism.
For now, the announcement stands as one of the more unusual moments of this year’s General Assembly: a sitting American president using the world’s most prominent diplomatic stage to announce not a treaty, a sanction, or a military posture, but a change in vocabulary — one he insists is more accurate, and one he hopes the rest of the planet will eventually adopt.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/09/22/welcome-to-si-trump-tells-u-n-that-america-is-replacing-term-artificial-intelligence-with-super-intelligence/