Trump says he will ban the term AI in official documents, push to use "SI" instead

President Donald Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social in the last hour: - "When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be. In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, "AI/Artificial Intelligence, " in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy.

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Explanation:

President Donald Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social in the last hour: - "When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be.

In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, "AI/Artificial Intelligence, " in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter." - "The Freedom Caucus Fund just did a Great Ad, One of the best out there, talking about PRESIDENT DONALD J.

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Thank you, I love the Freedom Caucus." The geopolitically significant signal is the first post, which frames AI terminology as a matter for federal officialdom and claims an imminent ban on the term in relevant documents. Even if partly rhetorical, it signals a willingness to use presidential messaging and administrative direction to shape how the U.S. government defines and discusses frontier technology.

That matters because AI policy now intersects with military systems, export controls, semiconductor supply chains, cyber operations, and competition with China and other major powers. Historically, the U.S. has treated AI as a strategic technology through national security reviews, industrial policy, and agency guidance rather than language bans, so this post is unusual in form even if not yet an actual policy change.

The likely impact is heightened uncertainty around federal tech messaging and possible pressure on agencies to adopt a preferred framing, while the second post is mostly domestic political praise and has little direct geopolitical weight.

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