Trump Hosts AI CEOs to Discuss Safety Standards, Rebrands AI as 'Super Intelligence' (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://politics.slashdot.org/story/26/09/30/0523201/trump-hosts-ai-ceos-to-discuss-safety-standards-rebrands-ai-as-super-intelligence
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-host-zuckerberg-anthropics-amodei-other-ai-titans-tuesday-2026-09-29/
> Trump hosted executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia, and other tech companies at the White House. They [2]agreed to voluntary AI-safety standards , including independent audits and safeguards aimed at preventing AI systems from accessing or hacking technical systems in unintended ways. Trump also strongly backed the continued rapid expansion of AI data centers, despite concerns over their electricity demand, utility costs, and other impacts on local communities. He said he is considering creating a 10-member board to oversee AI safety and plans to appoint a new White House official to lead AI policy.
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> The meeting comes amid growing concerns about the risks posed by advanced AI, including reports from OpenAI and Anthropic that their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies' systems. A nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted September 17-20 found that 73% of respondents worried AI companies had not done enough to prevent AI from causing serious harm to society. During the meeting, Trump also directed government agencies to use the term " [3]super intelligence " instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~hcs_%24reboot
[2] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-host-zuckerberg-anthropics-amodei-other-ai-titans-tuesday-2026-09-29/
[3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/
Hello palm, my old friend (Score:1)
Face? We have a palm alert!
Consequences. (Score:4, Insightful)
Now that the term "super intelligence" doesn't have a distinguishing meaning anymore, we will have to find a different phrase to refer to AI that both qualifies as intelligent and further that qualifies as having intelligence beyond that of humans.
Something like...I don't know....Ultrahuman intelligence. It is less ambiguous than ultra-intelligence but is unfortunately long.
Oh well. I am sure you guys can come up with more alternatives.
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OpenAI and all the other companies with "AI" in their name may want to change their names to fit the new name of "Super Intelligence".
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OpenSuper, xSuper etc and Nvidia will become Nvidrepus
Re: Consequences. (Score:1)
lol
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Maybe we could just cut to the chase and go straight to Plaid Intelligence? It's not like anyone outside 1600 Pennsylvania is taking this "rebranding" seriously anyway, so why not have some fun with mocking it while we can?
At least the voters are not talking about things like Epstein, Iran, and the price of gas, which is likely the whole point; look at all the stupid, forget about the serious, and (for ~50% of the them) be sure to tick the name with "R" next to it next month like you're programmed to.
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Super Duper Tippy Top Intelligence
"super intelligence" meaning hasn't changed (Score:2)
> Now that the term "super intelligence" doesn't have a distinguishing meaning anymore, ...
Actually it still seems to have that meaning. With respect to the "crisis" they are concerned about preventing the term still refers to the same thing. As does many of their references to vague future beneficial systems.
Trump simply does not realize how broad, and how small, AI can be. He thinks only in terms of these hypothetical future systems, the beneficial and the harmful. He thinks that is all AI is. He doesn't realize that a model running on your watch today is also AI.
So Trump using the term "
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Bigly Intelligence
Let's put this in context... (Score:2)
For [1]someone who considers the MoCA "a very hard test" [independent.co.uk], it's not all that unreasonable to consider an obsequious oracle "super intelligent".
Of course, we could say the same about a slightly brain-damaged labrador retriever, but they aren't setting national and global policy regarding the most likely cause of human extinction over the next few decades.
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-moca-cognitive-test-fact-check-b2947110.html
Super Intelligence, but... (Score:2, Troll)
Smartest president still smarterer.
Nobody's switching to Super Intelligence (Score:1)
Rename the Gulf or a Great Lake? Sure. Whatever. Renaming this whole branch of computer science? No. Not going to happen. Dude is delusional to even try.
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Next he will be renaming the United States of America to America of America. Or maybe straight to Trump America.
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Can't wait until Chicago renames the street Trump Tower is on to Barack Hussein Obama Way [1]https://www.nbcchicago.com/new... [nbcchicago.com]
[1] https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-tower-in-chicago-could-soon-be-located-on-barack-hussein-obama-way/3951459/
He thinks AI is "SkyNet" and nothing else (Score:1)
> Rename the Gulf or a Great Lake? Sure. Whatever. Renaming this whole branch of computer science? No.
Nope, not much has changed, nothing meaningful. Trump thinks AI is the Hollywood portrayal of AI. He erroneously thinks it is entirely the frontier stuff. He does not realize that the small model running in a wrist watch monitoring a heartbeat is also AI. He's focused entirely on the frontier, so his use of "super intelligence" is not much of a problem.
What real experts are concerned over, what many people believe regulations are needed for, is a hypothetical "super intelligence". And that is all Trump t
Re: Super Intelligence, but... (Score:1)
Didn't he just tell the whole UN that no way was anyone going to slow the AI / SI race? I can't believe he u-turned so .. so unlike him
Re:Now I'm confused (Score:4, Informative)
First stop taking Propaganda from Fox News and maybe read the actual text of the proposed legislation. Nothing is being banned and ironically enough it's something Trump also wants, a department of AI. Or maybe SI depending on what he changed it to this week.
[1]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p... [pbs.org] The bill, provided first to The Associated Press, would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.
The headline is also from the "liberal media" btw.
[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-bernie-sanders-unveils-bill-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-create-department-of-ai
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> WTF is wrong with Democrats?
Nothing, you're just a fucking idiot.
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In fact, there is a lot wrong with Democrats. If there was nothing wrong with them, no one would be voting Trump over Democrats.
Leaving aside bipartisan issues like corruption, lies, and incompetence... Where Democrats fall behind Republicans these days is that Democrats consider party discipline more important than election results, or even any results at all. Republicans took note that Trump was making waves, understood that the wind was changing, and they remade the Party in his image to get ahead. Democ
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> Not only that, Democrats have lost the ability to govern and are basically imploding by now, only making half-hearted noise about issues, but folding every hand without any actual fight. Pity.
They're infected with AIPAC.
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What do you support regarding AI? And what do "Bernie and AOC want to ban" that you support? Details matter.
Last I heard, Bernie was proposing public ownership of AI. Hard to believe that would include "banning" it.
And Bernie isn't a Democrat.
"WTF is wrong with Democrats?"
You are what's wrong.
I saw another story this morning... (Score:2)
on RawStory, ('Criminal plot' suspected behind Trump's latest bizarre fixation: journalist Alexander Willis) claiming people are secretly buying up the .si domain extension. No doubt the trump failsons bought most of them just before daddy proclaimed AI will henceforth be known as SI.
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Hmmm.... .si domain you say? Slovenia?
Where's Melania from again?
It's a conspiracy, I tells ya!
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[1]https://threadreaderapp.com/th... [threadreaderapp.com] yeah - the mass-buying started back in June, months before any announce or post was ever made on the matter. And yes, several are now selling for millions.
[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2105090249445769519.html
Welcome to the new "Boeing" (Score:1)
We all know what happened when we let them regulate themselves...
This is just another sham distraction, I mean, it's effective and all, but still a sham.
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The AI industry calling for regulation is a better sham still. They know the regulation will be toothless, there is nothing for them to fear. But if the "regulation" materializes, they can deflect any liability for the sizable damage they cause by pointing out they follow regulation.
Related are the calls to get public oversight in the form of part government ownership. Which is a ploy to sell their inflated stock to taxpayer suckers, to get the government on the leash to pave the way for them with all of th
Convenient Response Generator (Score:2)
"What's your response to (insert AI concern here)?"
"It's not AI, it's SI. Fake news!"
Meaningful response to legitimate concerns avoided!
"Super Intelligence" but with misspelled country (Score:1)
Because why the fuck not? [1]Photo of idiocy [yimg.com]
[1] https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/9bc222758d35f2cb989de91d834b6dc0419af767014ee84fcdc1af9b15f9a3ff/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_independent_635%2F663d5000252d8dceede7495183323eb7.jpg
He seems to deteriorate fast (Score:3)
Super Intelligence? The A in AI stands for AMERICA! so it should be called American Intelligence! :)
Well, I suppose that compared to Trump ... (Score:2)
most AI is Super Intelligent.
Purge them (Score:2)
Trump's entire gene pool should get expunged from the face of the planet.
this is another grift (Score:2)
per a twitter post, someone did some searching and found that .si (Slovenia, yes where Melania's from) domains were being bought at an average of about 400 / month, usually with words in their own language.
But starting in *JUNE* (months before this announcement or any other like it), scalpers started buying up .si domains with common and corporate english words by the thousands...and now those domains are selling for millions.
Somebody knew it was coming, months ago. This was very well planned out to make so
Not Stable Genius Intelligence? (Score:2)
I'm shocked!
Metric units... (Score:2)
SI = Système international , or what we know as the metric system of units
The Imperial (march) units SI = Stupid Intentional
Epstein files (Score:2)
Where are they?
let's see them.
Fantasic! (Score:5, Insightful)
Will that help petroleum prices or the cost of literally anything right now?
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Rich people should be very excited about the elimination of labor. Everything can be ownership again. (you couldn't own people for some time now, which really put a wrench into assigning them a value).
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Elon Musk thinks you can, he's pursuing it in Texas.
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Who wants to own people, they're obsolete
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> Will that help petroleum prices or the cost of literally anything right now?
Why? When was the last time one of these billionaires bought their own gas or groceries or anything else? Minor issues like cost of living do not effect them personally.
Life is different when money is just a number on a scorecard.