Trump Says He'll Ban 'Artificial Intelligence' in 'All Relevant Documents'

A Truth Social post pushed 'Super Intelligence,' the name an executive order already told federal agencies to use.

President Donald Trump wants the letters "AI" gone, and on Tuesday he went after The Wall Street Journal for still using them.

"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," he wrote on Truth Social, Reuters reported. Then came the threat: "In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, 'AI/Artificial Intelligence,' in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy."

Look at the tense. The post promises a ban and doesn't announce one. It gives no date beyond "in short order," and it doesn't say which documents count as relevant or what "everything else" covers.

Part of the rename is already on paper. Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 29 telling federal agencies to use "super intelligence," Deadline reported, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang has gone along with it. News outlets haven't. They've kept writing "AI," Deadline noted.

Tuesday's post is the latest step in a campaign that's been running for weeks. In September, Trump ran a poll on renaming AI. He also talked up "super intelligence" when he hosted Elon Musk and other tech executives at the White House, according to Deadline. The order followed, and in early October he tapped Jay Clayton to lead a new "Super Intelligence Force."

The old name has a long head start. People have been saying "AI" for decades, and Trump's own White House put out an "AI Action Plan" last year. Steven Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" hit theaters in 2001.

Trump's power to make the rest of the country take up the new word is limited, Deadline pointed out. His White House has pushed past that line before. When the Associated Press kept calling it the Gulf of Mexico instead of the Gulf of America, the White House shut the AP out of the Oval Office and took it off the press pool.

The news agency took that fight to court, where a federal judge found the lockout likely violated the First Amendment. That case is still on appeal, and this time the newsroom Trump called out by name is The Wall Street Journal.

Source: thehill.com.

Source: aol.com, retrieved October 27, 2026. Other sources: Deadline.