Trump declares anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence to be ‘The Enemy!’

Trump declares anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence to be ‘The Enemy!’ President’s latest outburst comes as his push to rebrand the emerging technology falls increasingly flat - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Already a member? Log in President Donald Trump on Thursday opened up a new front in his ongoing war against commonly-used terms and geographic place names by warning that anyone referring to Large Language Models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude as “Artificial Intelligence” would earn themselves a place on his enemies list. Writing on Truth Social, he declared that the White House “considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!” The president’s 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 “super intelligence” following a lunch with leaders in the AI industry, including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei and others. That widely-mocked directive followed bizarre remarks to the U.N. General Assembly in which he declared that the U.S. “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme” for regulating AI and declaring that the technology would be “hereinafter officially called superintelligence” because “use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake.” “It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It's actually amazing,” said Trump, who the week before had launched a poll in his Truth Social feed over the weekend asking respondents to vote for either “SuperIntelligence,” “Superior Intelligence,” or “Extreme Intelligence.” More follows... Join our commenting forum Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Comments