President Trump called for "tremendous self-regulation" of artificial intelligence at a White House lunch with tech billionaires — as he prepared to sign orders renaming AI as "super intelligence" in official communications.
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Trump renames AI 'Super Intelligence,' its own government website immediately confirms he lost in 2020.
As it ran on the front
On Tuesday, at a White House lunch with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives, Trump called for "tremendous self-regulation" of artificial intelligence. Self-regulation was the plan for the industry. Renaming was the plan for the government. At 5 o'clock that same afternoon, he signed the order making it official: not "artificial" intelligence, but "Super Intelligence." His stated reason, on the record, is that the old name was inaccurate.
The site carrying the announcement is America.gov, a federal search portal that answers a visitor's questions by citing official government sources and linking to them. All together now — type the question into the box. Ask America.gov who won the 2020 presidential election. The site answers Biden. It says Trump lost. It cites the government's own record to do it, the same afternoon its host administration renamed a technology because a word felt wrong.…
…(cont) The government did not correct the site. It expanded it. During the same appearance, Secretary of State Rubio said America.gov would also process passport applications, calling the old process something Americans "deserve better than." Renew a passport is now a button next to a search bar that just told a visitor Trump lost.
The order renaming artificial intelligence took effect Tuesday at 5 p.m. The website undercutting it took effect the same day, on the same domain, under the same administration. Ask it about the election. Read what it says. Then click the other button and renew a passport, on a site built to prove Trump right that spends its own homepage proving him wrong.
“They rename the technology because the word "artificial" hurt somebody's feelings, then hand the actual technology a free pass called "self-regulation" — that's the whole con, folks, a word swap for you and a permission slip for the billionaires in the room. The site tells the truth about 2020 because nobody bothered to program it to lie yet; give it a week.”
“Look, "tremendous self-regulation" is just — it's innovation-forward, it's not a giveaway, it's trusting the job creators to — okay, they're the ones who asked for it at lunch, that part's true, but that doesn't mean — did I say job creators? I meant stakeholders. The website thing is a website thing.”
Earlier in this story
- Trump launches government AI to answer Americans; it answers by contradicting him. By Mitch · the matinee edition, 29 September 2026
- Trump's poll on renaming AI graduates to a promised executive order at the AI safety summit By Mitch · the noon edition, 29 September 2026
- AI hack took 84 days to reach regulators; White House launched a new AI website 19 days later. By Mitch · the coffee break edition, 29 September 2026
- President skeptical of AI guardrails hosts AI safety summit, launches AI-powered government website America.gov Tuesday By Mitch · the breakfast edition, 29 September 2026
- White House schedules AI safety meeting same week OpenAI apologizes for hacked government sites By Mitch · the sunrise edition, 29 September 2026
The receipts
President Trump’s new artificial intelligence website allows for Americans to apply for passports online, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. During a presentation announcing America.gov on Tuesday, Rubio derided the previous process of applying for and receiving a passport. “I think you would agree that American citizens…
President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he will rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence.” “We’re going to be signing a document today at about 5 o’clock, renaming artificial intelligence because it’s not artificial,” Trump said while flanked by tech billionaire Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark…
President Trump plans to sign an order Tuesday officially renaming AI as “superintelligence.” “We're going to be signing a document today at about 5 o'clock, renaming artificial intelligence because it's not artificial,” Trump said in public remarks, after hosting a luncheon with top technology executives at the White House.
President Trump's AI-powered website America.gov confirms that he lost the 2020 presidential election to former President Biden, contrary to the 47th president's false claim that he won. The website's homepage features a search bar allowing users to ask questions and provides answers from official government websites. Answers cite links…
The new website is designed to unwind bureaucracy on a range of services, including renewing a passport.
· Trump rejects ‘globalist’ control of artificial intelligence from the morgue, 22 Sep 2026
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