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Trump Says He’s Renaming AI ‘Super Intelligence’ Because It ‘Sounds Much Better’

All mentions of “artificial intelligence” in US government documents will be replaced with “super intelligence” because it “sounds much better,” US president Donald Trump said in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Trump, speaking a year after he demanded an investigation into the alleged sabotage of an escalator at the UN that stopped working when he stepped onto it, said that calling AI “artificial” made it “sound fake, and it is not fake, it’s actually amazing.” The US president has a habit of renaming things via executive orders, including Lake Ontario to Lake America and the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, although the change of names only apply to US federal government use. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Trump’s call to rebrand AI to “super intelligence” would also be followed up by an executive order.

Released on 09/22/2026

Transcript

The United States also totally rejects

any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control

for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now.

Here and after officially called super intelligence,

changing the name,

and that the use of the word artificial

makes intelligence fake.

It makes it sound fake,

and 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.

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,

so it's super intelligence.

In other words,

welcome to the new world of super intelligence - SI.

SI, let's see if that goes.

It sounds much better.

It is much better,

and it's much more accurate.

Let's see if I have any power.

Maybe I do, and maybe I don't.

We're gonna find out pretty soon.