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Donald Trump has criticised The Wall Street Journal for continuing to call artificial intelligence “AI” rather than “SI”, his preferred term for “superintelligence”. Just the News reports that Trump signed an order in late September renaming AI to SI and said the term would be banned in relevant government documents.
Why it mattersThe report says organisations outside government have resisted the change. So far, this is a dispute over official language and public usage, not evidence of a change to AI technology or its development. A small but revealing test of how far a government can push a new name into everyday use.
Discuss: Should public agencies adopt the terminology set by an executive order, or stick with established language?
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