President Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence."
On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence" to change AI's name because innovation "far exceeds" just AI, the White House said.
"They [frontier systems] increasingly amplify human ingenuity and unlock new forms of creativity, empowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible across science, medicine, and nearly every other domain of human endeavor," the order said. "As these capabilities continue to improve, they increasingly represent not merely artificial intelligence, but a new era of Super Intelligence."
This comes after Trump met with AI and tech executives on Tuesday afternoon, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Trump called the meeting "very productive and extremely friendly" and said there was agreement on making the world safe, in a video posted on X by the special assistant to the president.
For the past week or so, Trump has been touting "super intelligence," calling it a more "important name" compared to AI. Trump has taken the approach that the U.S. needs to beat China in the race for AI innovation, despite growing concerns from lawmakers and the companies themselves over the need for stronger safeguards and a slower pace of development.
After the lunch on Tuesday, Trump said that existing laws are sufficient to protect Americans from AI risks. Execs at the lunch signed an agreement, which House Speaker Mike Johnson described as "voluntary," according to Bloomberg.
Also on Tuesday, Trump told Axios that U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton could be a good AI czar. Clayton was also chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 2017 to 2020. Tech investor David Sacks was previously the White House AI and crypto czar, but stepped down in March because his 130 days as a special government employee were up.