Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’
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Trump told the UN General Assembly on 22 September that US documents will now call AI “super intelligence”. He paired the rename with a pledge to encourage the technology rather than rein it in, and rejected global control of it. The speech came days after Geoffrey Hinton told senators Congress has about a year to act.
Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligence’, because ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake.
The rebrand grabbed the headlines, but the policy sat in the sentences around it. As Lance Ulanoff argued in TechRadar, the real message was that Trump does not want the technology regulated, at home or abroad.
Trump told delegates that US documents, “and hopefully the world’s”, would switch...
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