Trump turns to self

Artificial intelligence is no more. On Tuesday, September 29, Donald Trump signed its death certificate through a presidential order. From now on, super intelligence will be the preferred term, a change introduced by the businessman who has long prided himself on coining new phrases in political discourse. The new term will be used in all official documents. Trump thinks that the word artificial sounds too "fake" and fails to capture the full potential of this major technological advancement.

With the midterm elections looming and Republicans facing a potentially difficult campaign, the White House dedicated the day to recalibrating its message on this hot-button issue, which has become an electoral concern for the first time. Trump gathered key industry players. AI is "bigger than the industrial revolution" and "bigger than the internet," he said after the meeting, which included Elon Musk (X), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Sundar Pichai (Google), Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Mark Zuckerberg (Meta).

Bold adjectives abounded in descriptions of the meeting, AI's benefits for economic growth, and the joint statement that concluded the event, outlining a steep path in this highly competitive field: self-regulation. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called it "a historic meeting."

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