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What’s in a name? What China and Trump call AI reveals how they see its future

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to replace the term "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" (SI), arguing the word "artificial" makes the technology sound "fake." The order contrasts with China's naming convention for AI, which places humans rather than artificiality at the center of the technology. The differing terminology reflects how the two countries view the future of the field.

by read1 min views1 publishedOct 11, 2026

US President Donald Trump wants to banish the word “artificial” from artificial intelligence, saying it makes one of the world’s most consequential technologies sound “fake”. Across the Pacific, however, China’s name for the technology has long carried a different connotation – one that places humans, rather than artificiality, at its centre. Trump last week signed an executive order directing US federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence”, or AI, with “Super Intelligence”, or SI, in...

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