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Articles on Artificial Superintelligence: what the term means, Trump’s proposed name change, the investor connections and the implications for European law.
Trump wants to rename AI but Superintelligence is already taken
Trump asked followers on X and Truth Social to pick a new name for AI, then announced “super intelligence” at the UN. The term already has decades of research behind it: intelligence far beyond human ability across almost every domain. A vote on a name cannot establish that capability.
The announcement — Donald Trump, UN General Assembly, 22 September 2026Reuters · from 1:17 · click to load
Trump’s AI adviser co-founded a firm that backs a superintelligence startup
Safe Superintelligence, a startup co-founded by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, was reportedly valued at $32 billion in April 2025. Among its investors is Andreessen Horowitz, whose co-founder Marc Andreessen advises Trump and helped fund his election effort. Our domain study adds a separate record of registrations around the startup’s launch.
Trump can rename AI. Europe’s law still calls it artificial.
Trump says “artificial” makes AI sound fake. The EU’s AI Act uses the term across all 24 official languages, where it describes the technology’s origin. Calling a system “superintelligence” changes neither its capabilities nor the legal definitions that determine whether the law applies.
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