Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial
The Verge·1 min read
A longtime AI booster, Trump has gone into pro-robot overdrive since an industry conversation over “pacing” frontier development last month. His current position is that AI safety risks are overblown and US companies need to speed up development, including by building more data centers, which he insists contrary to polling data will be “very popular.” On top of discouraging industry self-regulation, he’s decided AI needs a rebrand by fiat. Trump declared in a rambling United Nations speech last month that “the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake” and promised to rename the technology “super intelligence.” He then followed through with an executive order last week, forbidding the use of “AI” wherever possible.
