Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/videoframe_1949029.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/8/23864365/united-nations-climate-change-report-card-global-stocktake">climate change</a>, and transgender people <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/6iFtwt6Ck58?si=QuLO1Sf6zN5_2sGj&amp;t=1947">while also claiming</a> that the US is now "officially" renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence." Oddly, this wasn't one of the entries in the poll Trump posted a few days ago when he started on this tangent.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Why is he saying this at all? Because, according to Trump, the word artificial makes intelligence fake. Is that what makes it sound fake to you? I can think of a few other reasons.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Trump has previously decreed renaming the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24353450/google-maps-rename-gulf-of-mexico-america-mt-mckinley">Gulf of Mexico</a>, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/986756/mapquest-downloads-surge-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario">Lake Superior</a>, the Kennedy Center, and Denal …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998816/donald-trump-ai-super-intelligence">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>