Trump proposes three names for AI, two share acronyms

Trump wants to rename AI: three names and the same acronym

Donald Trump wants to change the name of artificial intelligence. On Saturday, he launched a poll with three alternatives—Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, and Supreme Intelligence—in a week marked by the debate over the risks of this technology. One detail: the first and third proposals share the same acronym, IS.

What names does Trump propose for artificial intelligence?

Three. Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, and Supreme Intelligence, presented by Trump as “a much more elegant and accurate description” of the phenomenon. Two of the three abbreviations coincide.

Is a machine intelligent?

It depends on what is meant by intelligence, and there is total disagreement. Some maintain that current models imitate functions, not finalities: they solve problems but do not decide what for. Conversely, another participant argues that the operational definition—analyzing, reasoning, retaining, and applying learned knowledge to new situations—is already fulfilled by machines without needing them to be alive; what would be missing is not intelligence, but consciousness, that subjective experience connecting coldness, hunger, or antiestéticar to a decision.

There are also those who maintain, without proof, that AI fulfills ancient prophecies about the end of times, with the disappearance of physical money in the background. Another participant ironically suggests that if judged by nationality, the name American Intelligence would have preserved its acronym without needing any changes.