U.S. President Donald Trump rejects international oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) as a “globalist scheme” and said the United States would rename the technology “super intelligence” in official documents.
Donald Trump made the statement while addressing the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 22.
He rejected calls for global rules on AI and framed its development as a contest, saying “Whoever wins super intelligence wins.” Trump said the United States leads China and others by a wide margin and would keep that lead, pledging to encourage the technology rather than rein it in while monitoring it through the Department of Justice.
Trump dismissed warnings from AI-safety advocates, likening them to past warnings about global warming and asserting the planet had been cooling. He tied the safety camp to earlier episodes he called “hoaxes.”
Ahead of the U.N. meetings, leaders of more than 20 countries, mostly European, urged binding safety measures for advanced AI, warning its development could outpace efforts to control it.
Trump’s stance sits at odds with recent positions from major American AI firms. Earlier in September, OpenAI, known for ChatGPT, called for the United States to lead an international effort to set shared technical standards for advanced AI.
On the same page, Anthropic, known for Claude, pressed for mandatory safety testing and government oversight of the most capable models.
Besides, Trump argued the word “artificial” made the technology sound fake and undersold it, suggesting “welcome to the new world of super intelligence (SI).” He hopes other governments would adopt the term.
The rebrand extends a pattern of renamings by the Trump administration, including the “Gulf of America” and “Lake America.”