Linguists reject "super intelligence" as a mandated replacement
5 Oct 9 7:00 AM · 5d ago · 15 posts · 5 comments · 4 sources · development 5 of 5
CNET commentary, citing linguists Naomi Susan Baron and Emily Bender, argued the term is a political rebrand that obscures AI's real limits and risks and that language change can't be imposed by executive order.
“Pollyannish and dangerous”
Naomi Susan Baron
Donald Trump U.S. President
White House Executive branch issuing the orderNaomi Susan Baron Linguist, authorEmily Bender Computational linguistics professor, AI ethics voice
Jake Tapper CNN anchor
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That's comforting. If smart AI is super intelligence, then is dumb AI, er, Trump intelligence.
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Trump has said that people who use the term Artificial Intelligence, instead of Super Intelligence, are "THE ENEMY"
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I've been talking to journalists a LOT recently, and it was particularly delightful to get to speak about questions of linguistics, language change and prescriptivism, for once: https://www. cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof tware/ai-not-super-intelligence-no-one-should-use-trumps-term/
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Don't get distracted, it's easy enough by putting something like this out to make people focus than focus on the real things happening.
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Sources: Oct. 8/9 2026 @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/08/t... @politico.com
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The depths of Trump's stupidity is truly mind numbing Trump says anyone who will use term Artificial Intelligence (AI) instead of Super Intelligence (SI) will be considered enemy by the White House # AureFreePress # News # uspol # uspolitics # BreakingNews
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No, AI works. It’s artificial intelligence. Fake intelligence. Not real intelligence. It is the appearance of intelligence through brute force and repetition. If you guess and check every possible answer to find the correct answer it’s because you don’t understand how to deduce the correct answer without all the guessing and checking. You get the…
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Someone check to see if any large purchases of .si domains have occurred recently
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Which AI models does the administration’s framework cover? Who decides on “trusted partners”? Can developers share models with allied governments? Adam Conner on the unanswered questions about a de facto AI licensing system: https://www. lawfaremedia.org/article/the-m…
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The only group of people that are an enemy to the US (and humanity as a whole) are republicans.
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Super intelligent president designates new enemies "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!" https:// nationalzero.com/2026/10/08/su per-intelligent-president-designates-new-enemies/
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Frontier AI labs largely do this sort of disclosure and incident reporting already, and Trump’s task force has not laid out exactly what will count as an “incident” that must be reported going forward. Read more from Ashley Gold:
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"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? ...The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller." George Orwell, 1984 Trump says anyone who does not...
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Trump declares anyone who doesnt use the term 'Super Intelligence' in reference to AI 'the enemy' Source: The Mirror US Trump declares anyone who doesnt use the term 'Super Intelligence' in reference to AI 'the enemy' Source: The Mirror US https:// share.
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We seem to have entered a brave new world of executive English, where language isn’t determined by real-world usage, but as an instrument of authority imposed from above. https://www. cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof tware/ai-not-super-intelligence-no-one-should-use-trumps-term/
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Dear America, I swear, I don't know if I can survive two more years of this without permanent mental damage, I am begging you, get this guy away from the phone at the very least… https://www. politico.com/news/2026/10/08/t rump-ai-super-intelligence-renaming-01112404
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https://www. europesays.com/unitedstates/36 950/ The Many Open Questions About the Trump Administration’s New De Facto AI Model Licensing System # ExecutiveBranch # POTUS # PresidentOfTheUnitedStates # WhiteHouse # WhiteHouse &ExecutiveBranch
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Trump’s rare AI directive, telling AI companies to report and immediately remediate instances of rogue behavior, is sparking questions.
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It’s super dumb that this needs to be said. AI Is Not 'Super Intelligence....
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