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Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, their weekly newsletter on AI.
Key facts
- An exclusive interview with Nick Cammarata, the researcher whose 26,000-word viral blog post has AI safety folks celebrating
- The term “Super Intelligence”—or simply “SI”—now appears more often on government solicitations, like a new request by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for companies to build “SI-powered
- In the past couple of weeks, most of President Trump’s posts on Truth Social have been endorsements for candidates in the midterms — It is Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s prerogative to decide that SIForce is a better name than AIForce and direct his company to implement that change
Summary
At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive order that contained one directive, ordering government agencies to rebrand what they had been calling artificial intelligence as “Super Intelligence.” That term beat out other contenders, including “Extreme Intelligence” and “Supreme Intelligence,” offered by the president in a poll on X a couple of weeks earlier. Rebrands are, of course, now a White House tradition: Trump has changed names to project US dominance of certain bodies of water (the Gulf of America and Lake America), to signal new institutional priorities (Department of War), or simply to leave his mark on storied places (see the ongoing fight over renaming the Kennedy Center). The stated reason for this name change is that today’s AI systems “amplify human ingenuity” rather than merely “imitate” intelligence, and the government’s terminology should reflect that.
But most Americans go months without ever pondering what to call the major lake between New York and Canada.