Overview
- President Donald Trump posted a Truth Social poll offering three replacement names—"Superior Intelligence," "Extreme Intelligence," and "Supreme Intelligence"—and invited followers to vote.
- The poll drew rapid participation reported at roughly 27,000 to 30,000 votes within about an hour, with "Superior Intelligence" shown as the leading option.
- The renaming pitch comes alongside administration plans to create an "AI Force" and to name an AI czar as part of a policy stance that favors accelerating U.S. AI development rather than imposing broad slowdowns.
- Tech leaders including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and xAI’s Elon Musk have recently urged slower, more cautious development of frontier models, while some Republican lawmakers back targeted measures and industry self-regulation.
- Observers and outlets note the rename is largely symbolic because researchers, companies, and international bodies set technical terminology, but the effort signals White House priorities on competitiveness and public messaging about AI.