Trump Proposes Renaming AI, Announces New 'AI Force' and Future AI Czar

Key facts

• President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday proposing to rename AI, launching a poll with options Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence.
• Trump characterized AI safety concerns as hoaxes "generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country."
• He listed previous hoaxes including "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, Men in Women’s Sports, [and] Transgender for Everyone."
• Trump claimed the hoax began with an attack on data centers that "has largely failed," after which critics are "going straight at AI."
• New York recently became the first state to halt permits for large data center projects.
• Trump announced he is forming an AI Force, similar to the Space Force he established in his first term, and will soon name an AI "Czar," requiring "Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!"
• Venture capitalist David Sacks stepped down as Trump’s AI and crypto czar earlier this year to co-chair the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
• The AI safety debate intensified after an AI researcher quit Anthropic, warning that leading AI companies "earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade" and are "gambling with our lives"; Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released a "pace the frontier" plan endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, called on-stage by Trump at the All-In Summit (co-hosted by Sacks), agreed the AI backlash is a "hoax" and said "we’re not going to let" a slowdown happen.