Trump is arguing about AI’s name as China is writing the rules

The useful part

Is it supposedly runaway models slipping out of their sandboxes in order to hack and collude with one another—actions that are prompting calls for air accident investigator-style bodies to keep AI in check? Or is it the name AI itself, and whether it should be called superior intelligence, extreme intelligence, or supreme intelligence? General Assembly in New York this week, he focused on rebranding a concept that has existed for 70 years.

How it works

• documents, AI will be "hereinafter officially called 'Super Intelligence'." That was the preferred term after Trump polled his followers on Truth Social about what better to call it.
• "The use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake, it makes it sound fake," he said.
• President Xi Jinping used a keynote speech at Shanghai's World Artificial Intelligence Conference in July to lay out four priorities for his country, and the world.

Details worth keeping

What's the biggest issue in AI at the minute? Is it the yo-yoing stock markets as a result of those incidents? Given a pulpit and a global audience at the U.N.