Will calling AI 'super' intelligence make it less apocalyptic?

At his UN General Assembly address this week, President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. government will now refer to artificial intelligence as "Super Intelligence," because, in his framing, the word "artificial" makes the tech sound fake.

But while "Super Intelligence" may not sound fake, it is a term that carries its own baggage, and potentially a misleading one.

"Super" is among the most thoroughly saturated prefixes in the English language, loaded with decades of pop-culture pizzazz and associations with…