Donald Trump announced renaming AI as "Super Intelligence" during the UNGA meeting, claiming it is more accurate and sounds better, and urged the world to adopt the term.
On Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026 GMT+7, U.S. President Donald Trump announced at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the U.S. will officially rename artificial intelligence (AI) technology as "Super Intelligence" in government documents, arguing that the term "Artificial" sounds demeaning to the technology.
The U.S. leader also firmly rejected calls to establish an international regulatory framework for AI, describing it as a "globalist plan" aimed at pressuring and controlling this new technology.
Trump believes the name "Super Intelligence" sounds better and is more accurate, hoping the entire world will adopt it.
"It sounds much better, it’s far better, and it’s much more accurate," Trump said. "From now on, all U.S. documents—and hopefully worldwide—will use the term 'Super,' which is more precise than 'Artificial.' Therefore, it is Super Intelligence."
This renaming follows Trump’s previous policies, such as issuing executive orders to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "American Gulf" and Lake Ontario as "American Lake" during trade disputes with Canada, and his hints at renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans as well.
Trump compared warnings about AI dangers to previous climate change alarms, stating that the same groups who predicted the world would end in 12 years due to global warming are now warning that robots or AI will destroy humanity. He firmly rejected any efforts to create a global regulatory framework, seeing it as a threat to technological growth.
"The United States rejects any globalist efforts to establish plans to control... artificial intelligence entirely," Trump said. "Every great new technology brings challenges, and Super Intelligence is no exception... I will not obstruct the growth of what will be greater than the Industrial Revolution."
Before the meeting, over 20 leaders (mostly from Europe) pressured for legally binding safety measures, concerned that AI development is advancing too rapidly for humans to control. However, AI superpowers—the U.S. and China—have yet to endorse these global regulatory proposals.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on the U.S. and China to open dialogue and establish communication channels on AI, comparing it to the Cold War era when the U.S. and Soviet Union negotiated to manage existential risks to humanity.
Currently, the U.S. and China are in talks to set up communication channels addressing AI concerns ahead of the upcoming summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping this week.
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Source:cna