Trump orders renaming AI as “super intelligence” in PubMed

Scientists have criticised US president Donald Trump’s order to replace the term artificial intelligence (AI) with “super intelligence” after the world’s leading biomedical literature database began implementing the change.1PubMed, which provides access to millions of biomedical research papers, told users this week that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is adopting the new terminology under an executive order signed by the president on 29 September.2Entitled Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence, the order instructs federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in official communications, websites, reports, and policy documents.3Trump has said he dislikes the term artificial intelligence because it makes the technology sound fake.“[Super intelligence] is much more accurate” than the term artificial intelligence, which “makes it sound fake,” Trump told the UN General Assembly on 22 September 2026. “And it’s not fake.”The order argues that today’s AI systems have surpassed the capabilities originally…