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IT Home reported on October 28 that, according to a Xinhua report today, U.S. President Trump posted on the social media platform Truth Social on October 27 that he would soon “formally ban” the term “artificial intelligence (AI)” in “all relevant documents” and other settings because he considers the term “inaccurate.” The post did not specify how the ban would be implemented.
In the post, he also singled out The Wall Street Journal for criticism, saying it continued to use the “very bad and inaccurate” term “artificial intelligence.”
According to the report, The Wall Street Journal had previously published an article supporting continued use of the name “artificial intelligence,” calling Trump’s demand to rename it “super intelligence” a “big mistake.” For now, U.S. media still predominantly use the term “artificial intelligence.”
As IT Home previously reported, Trump formally signed an executive order on September 29 local time directing all executive departments and agencies to use “super intelligence” (SI) instead of artificial intelligence (AI).
Trump stated in the executive order: The extraordinary technologies pioneered by American innovators far exceed what was envisioned when the term “artificial intelligence” first appeared. The capabilities of today’s frontier systems go well beyond imitating or automating discrete aspects of human intelligence. They continually amplify human creativity, unlock new forms of creativity, and enable Americans to achieve goals previously impossible in science, medicine, and nearly every other human field. As these capabilities continue to advance, they increasingly represent more than just artificial intelligence: a new era of super intelligence.
The executive order also said that the terminology used by the U.S. federal government should reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the boundless opportunities they create for the American people. Therefore, the term “super intelligence” more appropriately reflects these technologies’ potential, potential, and rapidly developing capabilities. Accordingly, the Trump administration’s policy is that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, executive departments should use “super intelligence” and “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” and “AI,” and will not recognize the use of “artificial intelligence” and “AI” in any applicable context.
According to a Reuters report on October 7, the U.S. Department of Justice instructed its internal staff to use “super intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence” when referring to the technology in the vast majority of circumstances, including in court-related documents.