ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Gemini question Trump’s push to rename AI

U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “superintelligence” has failed to gain support from several widely used AI applications, including models developed in the United States.

The proposal has added another dimension to a broader debate in the technology industry over the development and regulation of AI. While leading figures including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have called for discussions on slowing AI development, Trump has argued that such restrictions could leave the United States behind and give China a major advantage, CE Report quotes Anadolu Agency.

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Trump argued that the word “artificial” makes the technology sound “fake” and proposed replacing it with the term “super,” which he described as more accurate.

His remarks prompted the Anadolu Agency (AA) to ask several major AI platforms whether “superintelligence” could replace “artificial intelligence” as the name for the technology.

The responses generally did not support such a change.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT said the term “artificial intelligence” is unlikely to disappear entirely. It noted that if systems with genuinely human-level or beyond-human general cognitive abilities emerge, “superintelligence” could become a term describing a much more advanced category of AI rather than replacing the broader term.

Elon Musk’s xAI model Grok similarly said that replacing “artificial intelligence” with “superintelligence” across the board was unlikely.

Anthropic’s Claude said the broader use of “artificial intelligence” was unlikely to disappear, although “superintelligence” could potentially become part of official terminology used by the U.S. federal government.

Google’s Gemini said the concept of artificial intelligence was not expected to disappear, while “superintelligence” could become more prominent in technology and political discussions as a term referring to a more advanced stage of development.

China-based DeepSeek also distinguished between the two terms, saying that “artificial intelligence” and “superintelligence” have different meanings in computer science and the technology industry. It argued that a political statement would not by itself change established technical terminology.

Overall, the AI models surveyed by AA indicated that “superintelligence” is more likely to describe a potentially more advanced category or stage of AI than to replace the established term “artificial intelligence.”

Türkiye calls for common legal framework

Türkiye, meanwhile, has called for international cooperation on the regulation of artificial intelligence.

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan highlighted the growing difficulty of controlling the technology and called for the creation of a common international legal framework for artificial intelligence.

“The time has long come to establish an international common legal framework for artificial intelligence,” Erdoğan said, according to the report.

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