Trump wants AI renamed “superintelligence,” g1 reports
🎧 Listen to this story
Donald Trump wants to replace the name “artificial intelligence” with “superintelligence” (SI). According to g1, the U.S. president said the current term makes the technology seem “fake.”
The expression emerged in 1955 in the United States, amid work by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon and Nathaniel Rochester to create machines capable of displaying reasoning similar to humans. Professor Allan Pscheidt told g1 that McCarthy created the term to distinguish the field from cybernetics, a term coined by Norbert Wiener in 1948. Researchers gathered at Dartmouth College to discuss how to develop machines capable of thinking, but did not reach agreement on a practical method.
Why it matters · editorial interpretation
The proposal puts how authorities name and frame the technology back into public debate, although the summary does not indicate any formal change in terminology. The historical context also recalls that “artificial intelligence” emerged as a term to define a specific research field.