Following a meeting with tech leaders, Trump announced a shift in terminology from “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence”
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US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a new White House task force focused on what his administration calls “super intelligence”, as he seeks to strengthen America’s position in the global artificial intelligence race. The Super Intelligence Force, announced by Trump on Sunday, will bring together senior officials from across his administration and report directly to the president and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will lead the task force alongside Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon chief technology officer Emil Michael and Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor.
The group will coordinate the government’s engagement with AI companies, consumers, religious organisations and other groups.
Trump has strongly backed the development of advanced AI, arguing that the US must maintain its lead over rivals such as China.
The move comes amid warnings from some technology insiders about the potential risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems.
Researchers at Anthropic have warned that sufficiently advanced AI could theoretically “kill all humans”, while the company’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, has cautioned that increasingly autonomous AI agents could become powerful enough to overwhelm large parts of the internet.
Despite such warnings, the Trump administration has stressed the importance of US companies continuing to develop the technology.
Trump Renames AI ‘Super Intelligence’
The task force follows a White House meeting last week attended by some of the world’s leading technology executives, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, X owner Elon Musk, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
During the meeting, Trump announced that his administration would stop using the term “artificial intelligence” in government communications and instead refer to the technology as “super intelligence”. “We’re going to be renaming it super intelligence,” Trump said.
Earlier, he said: “We’re going to be signing a document today at about 5 o’clock, renaming artificial intelligence, because it’s not artificial, we all agree on that.”
The president has presented the change as part of a broader effort to establish US leadership in the technology race.
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a pause in further AI development, citing concerns that the technology could put Americans out of work or leave them at a disadvantage.
New AI-Powered Government Website
The administration also launched an AI-powered website, America.gov, on Sunday. The site is designed to help people access federal information and services, including filling out passport applications and enrolling in Medicaid.
Trump compared the site to popular AI tools. “Anyone who has used Grok or Gemini or ChatGPT will understand instantly how to use America.gov,” he said at an event unveiling the website.
