President Donald Trump used Truth Social on Saturday to propose renaming artificial intelligence, announce a forthcoming 'AI Force' modeled on the Space Force, and pledge to name a new AI czar. He also cast the current wave of AI safety concerns as a partisan hoax aimed at destroying the country.
Trump opened by polling his followers on three potential replacements for the term artificial intelligence: Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence. The poll remained open at publication time.
“many people think that the words 'Artificial Intelligence' are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence.”— Donald Trump, US President
Hours later, Trump wrote that efforts at 'the decimation, or destruction, of AI' belong to a lineage of Democratic hoaxes he compared to the Russia and Ukraine investigations, global warming, both of his impeachments, and cultural fights over transgender policy. He offered no evidence that public concern about AI or data centers is coordinated rather than organic.
Key facts
- 01Trump posted a Truth Social poll offering three replacement names for AI: Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence.
- 02Trump said he will form an 'AI Force' modeled on the Space Force he established in his first term.
- 03A new AI czar will be named, replacing David Sacks, who stepped down earlier this year to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
- 04New York recently became the first state to halt permits for large data center projects, drawing opposition from both parties.
- 05Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agreed with Trump at the All-In Summit that the AI backlash is a 'hoax' and vowed no slowdown.
Opposition to large data center projects has come from officials in both parties. New York recently became the first state to halt permits for large data center builds, and local disputes over water, power, and siting have surfaced across the country. Trump framed the criticism as a failed 'attack' now redirected at AI models themselves.
The president said he will 'cherish' the AI industry and 'watch over it, as it grows,' while forming the AI Force and naming a new AI czar. He did not describe the duties of either.
“To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI 'Czar' — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!”— Donald Trump, US President
The czar role has been vacant since venture capitalist David Sacks stepped down earlier this year to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Sacks had held the combined AI-and-crypto portfolio since the start of the administration.
The announcement lands in the middle of an intensifying safety debate inside the industry. An AI researcher recently quit Anthropic saying leading labs 'earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade' and are 'gambling with our lives.' Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei responded with a 'pace the frontier' plan that drew public support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the opposite side at the All-In Summit, which Sacks co-hosts. Huang called Trump on stage, agreed that the AI backlash is a 'hoax,' and said any slowdown would not be permitted. Critics of the extinction-risk framing have argued it distracts from present-day harms in hiring, copyright, and content moderation.
“we're not going to let”— Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO
Trump's earlier remarks at a golf tournament last weekend left room for 'guardrails,' though he added that 'a lot of negative forces' were driving the debate. Saturday's post pushed further, treating safety criticism as an attack on the industry rather than a policy input.
The rebrand proposal is unlikely to move markets or model roadmaps. The AI Force and czar appointments are the substantive signals: they suggest the administration wants a dedicated federal channel for AI policy and a single named principal, and that its posture will lean toward industry acceleration rather than restraint. For labs and chipmakers, that alignment shortens the odds against near-term federal pause proposals and gives cover to companies scaling capacity. For state regulators like New York moving on data center permits, the friction with Washington just got sharper.
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