California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order Wednesday directing state agencies to stick with the term “artificial intelligence,” a pointed rebuttal to President Trump’s push to rebrand the technology as “superintelligence.”
\n\nPolitico reports that the dueling word choices played out over two days. Trump told reporters Tuesday he was directing the federal government to adopt the term “Super Intelligence,” arguing the technology is “not artificial, we all agree on that.” He’d recruited top tech executives to back the rebrand, and several of them used the term when speaking to reporters after a White House luncheon that same day.
\n\nGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signed a “White House Accord on Super Intelligence” at the event. As Breitbart News previously reported:
\n\n“It is entitled the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, a Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities. This is a statement of principles that you’ll see — a statement of standards, commitments that are voluntary on behalf of the industry. It sets forth expectations. It’s, in short summary, robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review. That’s important because you need…
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