Trump Claims Xi Endorses AI Renaming as 'Super Intelligence' During State Visit

President Donald Trump claimed Friday that Chinese leader Xi Jinping supported his proposal to officially rebrand artificial intelligence as "Super Intelligence," marking a diplomatic alignment on terminology at a moment of intense US-China competition in AI development. Trump made the assertion during Xi's three-day state visit to Washington, which included a lavish state dinner with prominent technology executives including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Sam Altman seated at the main table. The rebranding push follows Trump's earlier announcement at the United Nations General Assembly, where he argued that the word "artificial" misrepresents the technology. "The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake," Trump stated. "It is not fake. It's actually amazing." He proposed using "super" instead and introduced the abbreviation "SI" to replace "AI" across government communications.