Trump rebrands AI as 'superintelligence' at UN address

President Donald Trump announced at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 22 that U.S. documents will now use "superintelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence," arguing the latter makes intelligence sound fake. In the AI industry, superintelligence specifically refers to AI surpassing human capability across all skills, a theoretical level beyond current narrow AI like ChatGPT. Trump's rebranding repurposes this existing term, though experts note public animosity toward AI may have motivated the change. The term artificial intelligence dates to 1955, and superintelligence remains years away, with OpenAI's Sam Altman predicting it by decade's end. Trump previously polled alternatives like "superior intelligence," and compared the AI terminology shift to renaming global warming.