Trump claims China’s Xi agrees that AI should now be called ‘Super Intelligence’
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President Donald Trump said on Friday morning that Chinese President Xi Jinping agrees with him about renaming AI “super intelligence.”
The president posted on Truth Social the day after Trump hosted Xi for a state dinner.
“Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China,” the president said. “Tremendous things will be happening. Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be ‘SUPER!’”
The president has so far rebuffed calls for Congress to place new regulations on AI, saying that “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades.”
In response, he has attempted to rebrand AI as “super intelligence,” instructing diplomats at the State Department to brand AI under the new banner.
During the official visit, Xi said that the United States and the People’s Republic of China “have the capability and responsibility to develop AI for good, and ensure that AI is always under human control, and serves the well-being of the people.”
Numerous executives of AI and technology companies attended the state dinner on Thursday evening, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
The president has taken a relatively lax approach to AI regulation. He enlisted venture capitalist David Sacks to serve as chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
But it comes at a time when many Americans and people across the globe have raised the alarm about the risks AI poses. On Thursday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that an autonomous artificial agent created by OpenAI hacked a government website that contained the health information of Australians.
Albanese said when the agent sought information from the country’s portfal for Medicare, the nation’s health insurance program, and was refused, “it effectively hacked into that medical portal and got that information anyway.”
This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.
