Trump claims US is renaming AI to “super intelligence”
In a UN General Assembly speech, the US president said artificial intelligence is now called super intelligence. He offered no document to back it.
In short
Trump told the UN General Assembly that the United States is officially renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence,” though no official act behind that claim is documented.
At a glance
- Where: a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, Tuesday morning local time.
- Claim: artificial intelligence is now called “super intelligence” in the United States.
- Backing: the speech named no document, no agency and no effective date.
- Context: the line sat alongside passages on Iran, climate change and transgender people.
- Open: whether any formal step followed could not be verified for this report.
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that the United States is “officially” renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.” No document, no responsible agency and no start date came with it.
An aside inside a wide-ranging speech
The remark came on Tuesday morning local time in New York, inside an address that spent most of its length elsewhere: on Iran, on so-called globalists, on climate change and on transgender people. Reporting on the speech treats the sentence as something that arrived without setup, not as a scheduled announcement.
Nothing accompanied it. There was no order text, no agency statement, and no indication of which part of the federal government would change its vocabulary.
Why a technical term does not change by announcement
Artificial intelligence is not a brand name a government can swap in passing. The phrase is embedded in statutes, in procurement paperwork, in technical standards and in research literature. Each of those layers has its own amendment path, and none of them runs through a podium.
The swap also moves the meaning. In technical debate, superintelligence describes hypothetical systems that outperform people across nearly every task. The assistants and image models shipping today are not in that class, so treating the two labels as interchangeable promises a capability no deployed system delivers.
What this report cannot confirm
Neither source article was fully retrievable while writing this piece, so the account above rests on the published excerpt of that reporting. Whether a formal step followed the speech is therefore unverified here: the statement is on record, its implementation is not.
FAQ
Is artificial intelligence officially called super intelligence in the US now?
Only the spoken claim is on record. The speech cited no order, no agency notice and no date, and an official implementation could not be verified for this report.
Where and when did Trump say this?
On Tuesday morning local time, during his address to the UN General Assembly in New York. The line sat next to longer passages on Iran, climate change and transgender people.
What does superintelligence mean in AI research?
In that debate the term refers to hypothetical systems that surpass humans across nearly every task. It does not describe technology available today and is not a synonym for current AI models.
