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President Trump renamed artificial intelligence after a mind no one has built.
Executive Order 14434 gives today’s ordinary AI the name researchers reserved for an intellect beyond ours, and the minds who defined that word were not in the room. Basil C. Puglisi traces superintelligence from Turing and Good to Bostrom and shows how the order skips the AGI rung. The rename is a bad joke if superintelligence is far off and dangerous if the fears are right.
The machine is never the one who answers for what it does.
A September 2025 essay argued that AGI talk is usually about money and not reality. This September, Andrew Ng, Timnit Gebru, and Emily Bender reached the same point about responsibility from opposite sides of the AI debate. The piece separates real capability from the claims stacked on it, argues that superintelligence is further off than sold and will not end us, and moves from a human chain of responsibility to a real checkpoint.
Building the First Contact Team for Superintelligence Before the Window Closes (PDF Here) Abstract The people training artificial intelligence today are building the cognitive foundation for whatever comes next. If superintelligence emerges from systems whose value structures correlate with 12% of humanity and diverge from the rest (Atari et al., 2023; Henrich et al., 2010), […]
