Donald Trump, a continued threat to the safety and security of the United States, has been obsessed lately with trying to rename artificial intelligence as “super intelligence” by fiat. And a new Truth Social post is a weird escalation in his war on commonly accepted tech terms.

“The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!,” wrote Trump, signing his name to the missive in all caps.

If you heard someone ranting like this on the bus, you’d probably move seats and avoid eye contact. But this is coming from the most powerful person in the country, if not the world. And any time Trump declares someone an enemy, he does his best to use the power of government to destroy them.

The biggest names in AI have surrendered to Trump’s rebranding. Oligarchs like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk have all adopted the term “super intelligence,” which, a decade ago, used to mean AI that had surpassed human intelligence, though it was styled as one word: superintelligence. Musk even says he’s going to change his company’s name to SpaceXSI.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos became the latest tech oligarch to embrace the term SI in an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News this week. “I do like SI, because artificial is not a very flattering thing,” said Bezos. “Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.

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