At the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump declared that artificial intelligence should henceforth be called 'super intelligence'—a rebranding born from a social media poll and presented as a matter of linguistic accuracy. The move arrives at a charged moment, as the administration resists calls to regulate AI while framing technological competition with China as a civilizational contest. Yet the term Trump has chosen carries a precise and weighty meaning in academic circles—one reserved for a hypothetical, all-surpassing machine intelligence that does not yet exist—leaving expert