Trump Rejected AI Slowdown Calls at the UN and Renamed AI Super Intelligence
President Trump told the UN General Assembly he won't "stifle" AI development, dismissing safety warnings from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei as a "hoax" comparable to climate change, while announcing the US will officially rebrand "artificial intelligence" as "super intelligence" and create a new "AI Force."
Trump used his UN General Assembly address Tuesday to draw a hard line against the AI industry's own safety warnings — and to change what the technology is called. "I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," he told the assembly, directly rejecting the pacing calls made this month by OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei.
Trump didn't stop at rejecting slower development — he compared the entire safety debate to a hoax, using language he's applied to climate change for years. A few specifics from the speech stand out:
- He grouped AI extinction warnings with what he called "the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax, climate change" — all, in his framing, manufactured by the same critics
- Trump announced the US will officially rename "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" in government documents, saying "artificial" makes the technology "sound fake and it is not fake"
- He confirmed the creation of an "AI Force," modeled on Space Force, with an appointed "AI Czar" to police bad actors through existing law enforcement rather than new regulation
The speech leaned heavily on a winner-take-all framing: "Whoever wins AI... whoever wins superintelligence, wins," Trump said, adding that the US is "leading now over China by a lot and everyone else."
He also stated the US "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" AI — a direct swipe at the kind of international coordination the UN Security Council briefing was exploring the same week.
The contrast is stark: while Amodei and Bengio push for verifiable safety standards and slower frontier development, the White House is now betting its entire public posture on speed, branding, and unilateral oversight rather than the kind of pacing multiple AI executives have spent September publicly requesting.
