Artificial Intelligence
Trump calls AI users White House enemies
Donald Trump said the White House would treat people who use “Artificial Intelligence” as enemies, after again pushing “super intelligence” and saying the federal government should use that wording.
- Donald Trump said on Truth Social that the White House would treat people using “Artificial Intelligence” as enemies.
- He said he preferred “super intelligence” and had raised the term in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month.
- He signed an executive order in late September requiring the US government to use the new term.
- The order did not apply to the private sector, but the article said Meta and Elon Musk’s X were already using it.
- Trump did not say what consequence, if any, would follow from the label.
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the White House would regard people who used the older term as enemies. He did not explain what that would mean in practice.
He had raised the idea in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month, saying the new wording sounded better. In late September he signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to use it.
The order did not cover private companies, but the article said some had already adopted the phrase. It named Meta and Elon Musk’s X among those using it.
The article said the dispute was mainly political, with Trump trying to present AI more positively as concerns over security and data centres grew. It also said he often renames things or gives them nicknames.
Named in this story
People
- US President Donald Trump
- said the White House would treat users of the older term as enemies
- Mark Zuckerberg
- was identified as the Meta chief linked to the change
- Elon Musk
- was cited as using the new wording on X
Companies
- Meta
- was cited as already adopting the new wording
Organisations
- United Nations General Assembly
- was the forum where Trump had raised the naming idea last month
Governments and agencies
- White House
- was said to regard such users as enemies
- US government
- was ordered to use the new term
Products and systems
- Truth Social
- was the network where Trump posted the remark
- X
- was the network where Musk used the term
How the source tells it
The article was mostly straight reporting, with its only colour coming from Trump’s hostile wording and the reporter’s brief political framing of the terminology dispute.
- alarm a hostile label was applied to people who used a different term
- boosterism the preferred term was presented as newer and more accurate in a direct claim