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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump renames AI to ‘super intelligence’ and tells Americans they have no choice but to trust ‘these folks’

Donald Trump continued his inexplicable embrace of artificial intelligence on Tuesday as he gave it the ultimate honor — a Trump-style rebrand with the flick of an executive pen.

With the signing of an executive order Tuesday afternoon, Trump directed the U.S. government to begin referring to artificial intelligence, which is now embedded across the federal government, as “super intelligence”. The effect will be immediate: Work will be needlessly complicated for federal employees, while millions of Americans will continue calling the technology “artificial intelligence”.

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