Trump vows to ban ‘AI’ from official documents after media snub of his preferred term
WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump has announced to officially change the name of Artificial Intelligence after The Wall Street Journal refused to use Trump suggested name for the tech.
Trump previously signed an executive order on 29 September, 2026, directing federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” in specified official communications and other non-statutory documents.
Trump escalates his push to rename Artificial Intelligence
President Donald Trump has escalated his push by announcing a planned federal ban on the term "Artificial Intelligence."
Writing a post on Truth Social, on Tuesday, Oct 27, Trump criticized the term "AI" as "a very bad and inaccurate name" and stated that the administration will be officially banning it in all relevant government documents in favor of "Super Intelligence.”
Trump complained that the news organization had yet to adopt his preferred terminology, “Super Intelligence.”
Trump said administration will be banning officially the term because of its “inaccuracy.”
“In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, “AI/Artificial Intelligence,” in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy,” Trump wrote in his post.
When asked how the government could ban the term despite the First Amendment’s protection of free speech, the White House Press Office responded, “refer to the TRUTH.”
However, it remains unclear what Trump means by banning the term “artificial intelligence” from “all relevant documents, and everything else.”
Xi Jinping liked Trump’s proposed renaming of artificial intelligence
Trump began promoting the phrase “Super Intelligence” in a Truth Social poll last month and later claimed that Chinese President Xi Jinping also liked the term.
The president ran three different polls asking users to choose a new name for AI: “Super Intelligence,” “Extreme Intelligence” and “Supreme Intelligence.”
Earlier, Trump had also said anyone still using the term “artificial intelligence” was “the enemy,” even as the White House itself had been slow to adopt the change.
“The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ the enemy” Trump had written on Truth Social.
Trump has already directed the federal government to use the term “super intelligence” in place of “artificial intelligence.”
“The terminology used by the Federal Government should reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the limitless opportunities they create for the American people,” the president wrote in an executive order in late September.
