AI Is Not 'Super Intelligence.' Why No One Should Use Trump's Term - CNET
Dust off a dictionary from the early 1900s, and the term “computer” referred to someone whose job it was to perform arithmetic calculations — a human who computes. By the mid-20th century, a computer was redefined as an electronic calculating machine. Rather than by decree, the semantic change was driven by shifts in labor and technology.
We seem to have entered a brave new world of executive English, where language isn’t determined by real-world usage, but as an instrument of authority imposed from above.
The timing of the Trump administration’s executive order late last month mandating that federal agencies replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in all official communication and policies was peak opportunism. Amid growing disdain for and distrust of a technology that threatens job displacement and human extinction, the White House framed the term as better capturing AI’s “promise, potential and rapidly advancing capabilities.”
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