Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force

Photo: President Donald J. Trump – September 17, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) Attribution: “P20260917JB-0189” by The White House via Flickr. United States Government Work Article by Anthony Ha. TechCrunch – September 19, 2026.

President Donald Trump has responded in characteristic fashion to the recent debate around AI safety — by declaring that these concerns are part of a long line of hoaxes “generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country.” On Saturday, Trump began his musings on AI by writing on his social network Truth Social that “many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence.” So he posted a poll where followers could vote on a new name for the technology — Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence.  (The poll is still ongoing as of publication time)  […]

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