'Daily Show's Desi Lydic Torches Trump on 'Super Intelligence'
Lydic said Trump’s name change ignores calls from AI leaders for a pause and stronger oversight after systems helped create new systems.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced at the United Nations General Assembly that artificial intelligence will be renamed 'Super Intelligence,' or 'SI,' declaring 'Welcome to the new world of super intelligence dash SI.'
- Trump's rebranding strategy reflects his belief that current AI terminology is too scary; tech leaders Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk are believed to have influenced his adoption of 'superintelligence.'
- The Daily Show's Desi Lydic mocked Trump's 'weird obsession with rebranding things,' joking 'I was scared of artificial intelligence, but now I'd be honoured to be murdered by super intelligence.' Lydic noted 'nobody's gonna say SI' because Sports Illustrated already uses that acronym.
- ABC host Sara Haines called Trump's AI comments 'the most alarming pieces of his entire address,' arguing the president cannot grasp how imminently dangerous AI is and is 'completely looking aside' from real threats.
- On September 20, Trump announced a regulatory body called the 'AI Force,' asserting that 'Whoever wins AI wins' as the administration frames U.S. technological dominance as essential, though he stipulated the agency must not hinder current technological progress.
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The Independent
The Independent (US)Trump wants to rename AI. The name he chose is extremely telling
In 2014, a philosopher saw almost all of this coming and wrote a famous book about ‘superintelligence’. At the UN this week, Trump championed the term. It seems that he and his Silicon Valley friends are having some deeply concerning conversations, writes Holly Baxter
Trump is arguing about AI’s name as China is writing the rules
The contrast between the two countries’ public AI agendas says a lot about the larger fight over who gets to shape the technology’s future. What’s the biggest issue in AI at the minute? Is it supposedly runaway models slipping out of their sandboxes in order to hack and collude with one … Source
“Trump” proposes using the term “Super Intelligence” instead of Artificial Intelligence in US government documents, arguing that the term AI sounds unreal and opposing regulations that may hinder the development of the technology. He emphasizes the need to maintain US leadership in AI. The post “Trump” pushes for a new term for AI, “Super Intelligence,” declares US must lead China appeared first on Business Online Stock News.
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