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In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, “globalists,” climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now “officially” renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.” Oddly, this wasn’t one of the entries in the poll Trump posted a few days ago when he started on this tangent.

Why is he saying this at all? Because, according to Trump, the word artificial makes intelligence fake.

Is that what makes it sound fake to you? I can think of a few other reasons.

Trump has previously decreed renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Superior, the Kennedy Center, and Denali, with digital maps quickly switching the labels on landmarks for users in the US, but he says that with this “Let’s see if I have any power. Maybe I do, and maybe I don’t, we’re gonna find out pretty soon.”

Here’s what Trump said: The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globallist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now. Here and after officially called “super intelligence,” changing the name, and that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake.

It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing.

But we have to be careful. In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports.

From this point forward, all of the United States documents, and hopefully the world’s, will be changed to use the much more accurate term, super as opposed to artificial. So it’s super intelligence.

In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence—SI. That’s, uh, let’s see if that does.

It sounds much better. It is much better, and it’s much more accurate.

Let’s see if I have any power. Maybe I do, and maybe I don’t, we’re gonna find out pretty soon.

Super intelligence. Every major new technology brings challenges, and super intelligence is… no exception.

Yet. the very same people who said we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming — a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead.