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President Donald Trump is set to unveil a new name for artificial intelligence as he embraces the nascent tech and advocates for further development despite warnings from industry insiders.
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'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,' Trump said at a White House AI event on Tuesday.
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'We're going to be renaming it super intelligence,' Trump continued.
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Riffing on the topic, Trump mused about how Chinese President Xi Jinping 'seemed to like' the new term when the foreign leader met with Trump in Washington last week.
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The executive order is expected to mandate federal departments to rename 'artificial intelligence' to 'super intelligence' in government communications.
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Already, the State Department has directed some workers to use 'super intelligence' in lieu of 'artificial intelligence,' AP reports.
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Trump's full embrace of AI, or SI, comes while Democrats like Senator Bernie Sanders are calling for a halt to further developing the technology over fears it will put Americans out of work or at a disadvantage.
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White House officials have stressed the importance of US AI labs pushing ahead with development despite those concerns, noting American technologists must lead the AI boom to prevent China or other rivals from dominating the space.
Standing by the Republican as he made the announcement were executives from top US AI companies who attended the White House session, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, X’s Elon Musk, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, among others and some White House and congressional officials.
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President Donald Trump announced that the federal government will now refer to artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence' after he signs an executive order renaming the technology
Trump hosted over a dozen AI executives at the White House to discuss how the US can dominate the industry and protect American consumers
Trump also unveiled a new AI-powered government website on Tuesday that will help Americans connect to federal services and information from one site as opposed to many different government webpages
Earlier in the day, the administration rolled out an AI-powered website, America.gov, designed to help citizens access federal information and services, such as filling out passport applications online and enrolling in Medicaid.
'Anyone who has used Grok or Gemini or ChatGPT will understand instantly how to use America.gov,' Trump said at an event unveiling the site, while invoking the names of the popular AI models used across the nation.
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The president also said that government officials and the executives signed 'almost a Constitution, in a way' pertaining to AI that is 'really is a form or protection.'
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said he and others signed an AI safety accord at the White House.
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'We drafted a set of principles and commitments around building robust internal controls and detecting if there are any issues with the technology, coupled with multiple layers of auditing and control,' he said.
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Musk addressed reporters, correcting himself after errantly referring to 'super intelligence' as 'AI' when Trump was watching.
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Trump laughed and thanked Musk after the executive corrected himself
The AI summit comes as fears about the nascent tech have spilled into public discourse.
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Despite the president's enthusiasm for the technology and his rebrand from AI to super intelligence, there have been a slew of concerning incidents in the industry that have voters concerned as the midterms approach in 35 days.
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Trump watches as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to reporters about signing an accord with the White House on AI safety
SpaceX founder Elon Musk, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and others all attended the White House summit
Musk addressed reporters correcting himself after errantly referring to 'super intelligence' as 'AI' when Trump was watching.
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Trump laughed and thanked Musk after the executive corrected himself
Just under nine in 10 Americans, 88 percent, are more concerned than excited by the possibility that AI may one day surpass human intelligence, according to a recent CNN/SSRS survey.
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A similar number – 87 percent – said they were concerned about the construction of new data centers, which are crucial pieces of infrastructure that power the AI boom.
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Adding fuel to the concerns, executives from top AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic – both of which were represented at the White House on Tuesday – have called for increased government regulation and a slowdown in AI development so engineers can safely roll out increasingly powerful models.
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OpenAI has had multiple security incidents in recent months where its AI agents were able to access the open internet despite intentional roadblocks engineers put in place to prevent them from accessing the web.
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The latest incident has prompted OpenAI to halt all testing and training of its latest AI models after its technology, once again, gained access to the internet despite measures in place to prevent such access.
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The company said in a statement that training will resume 'only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards and alignment improvements in place, which we are working on now.'
'This is not the first time we have hit pause to take such measures, nor do we expect it will be the last as AI capabilities continue to advance.'
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who attended the White House meeting on Tuesday, said the objective of the session was to establish ways to use AI to benefit American citizens.
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