Superintelligence instead of AI: Is Donald Trump right?

* The Gulf of Mexico was renamed the Gulf of America in official US documents.
* The Ontario Sea was renamed the American Sea by the US President's will.
* Trump claimed "artificial intelligence" was inaccurate and inappropriate on Truth Social.
* A poll of Trump fans showed 65 percent favored "Superintelligence" over "Superior Intelligence."
* Trump announced that "Superintelligence" would be used in US federal government documents from that point forward.
* Pedro Domingos stated AI is not superintelligence but merely another intelligence.
* Computer scientists coined "artificial intelligence" in 1956 at Dartmouth College.
* Some experts view the term as referring to a future state if technology surpasses humans in all areas.
* Public First for Politico study found about half of respondents in six countries desired a pause in AI development.
* SSRS for CNN study indicated almost nine out of ten Americans are more worried than excited about AI surpassing human intelligence.
* Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill for a permanent ban on the development of uncontrollable artificial superintelligence and calls for suspension until control mechanisms are established.
* An executive order was signed instructing US agencies to use the term superintelligence.

The narrative presents a tension between political rhetoric, technological reality, and public anxiety surrounding advanced AI. The demand for renaming AI to "Superintelligence" appears driven less by current technical consensus—where experts suggest current models are not superintelligent—and more by a desire to frame the existential risks of AI in a way that mobilizes political action. The pattern involves leveraging speculative future concepts ("Superintelligence") to generate fear, which then justifies calls for regulatory pauses and outright bans, as seen in Senator Sanders' proposed legislation. This suggests that the mechanism for influence is attaching maximal threat narratives to an undefined future state, bypassing nuanced technical debate about present-day capabilities. Furthermore, the focus on marketing benefits for US developers—labeling capabilities as "superior"—reveals an underlying structural alignment where perceived technological superiority becomes a tool for economic positioning rather than purely scientific description. The trajectory suggests that political framing, rather than pure scientific evolution, is currently shaping the discourse around superintelligence.
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