Trump announces plans to rename AI Super Intelligence and emphasizes self-regulation

President Trump to Sign Executive Order Renaming AI, Says "Self-Regulation" Is Important [Publisher article text] President Trump announces that he will sign an executive order to rename AI to "Super Intelligence" while sitting alongside tech leaders such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who recently wrote an essay calling for slowing the development of AI due to its risks. Asked whether there was agreement on guardrails and regulation, the president responds that "self regulation is very important." He also tells reporters that tech leaders will work with communities on data centers, including helping them financially, and claims that areas with data centers have made their communities rich. [Complete native C-SPAN caption track; original timing and spelling retained; no speaker labels supplied] WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.099 --> 00:00:09.779 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% one thing. We're going to be signing a document 2 00:00:09.779 --> 00:00:14.899 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% today at about 5 o'clock renaming artificial intelligence because it's 3 00:00:14.899 --> 00:00:17.579 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% not artificial. We all agree on that, and 4 00:00:17.579 --> 00:00:20.299 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% we're going to be renaming it super intelligence, officially 5 00:00:20.299 --> 00:00:22.780 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% renaming it, and that will come out at 5 6 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:28.559 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% o'clock today, but there was a lot of commonality 7 00:00:29.090 --> 00:00:31.620 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% in this room. It was pretty amazing and. 8 00:00:31.829 --> 00:00:34.630 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% And all for the good. Really amazing, Mr 9 00:00:34.750 --> 00:00:37.169 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% . President, on commonality, the belief of everybody 10 00:00:37.169 --> 00:00:41.189 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% that you're meeting with today that no guardrails, no 11 00:00:41.189 --> 00:00:44.549 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% regulation of AI, superintelligence as you call it, 12 00:00:44.639 --> 00:00:47.069 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% is necessary. Well, there's a belief that there 13 00:00:47.069 --> 00:00:51.509 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation 14 00:00:51.509 --> 00:00:54.029 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all 15 00:00:54.029 --> 00:00:57.500 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% of that. But the self regulation is very important 16 00:00:57.950 --> 00:00:59.959 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% and there's something else that was discussed, and that's 17 00:00:59.959 --> 00:01:02.319 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% local communities. Uh, this is a group that 18 00:01:02.319 --> 00:01:04.959 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% loves local communities. They love our country, and 19 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.879 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% they're gonna work with local communities for the data centers 20 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.480 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% in particular, and they're gonna work to make the 21 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.099 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% community happy. Uh, that's might be supplying, 22 00:01:15.389 --> 00:01:18.199 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% uh, oil and gas. It might be supplying 23 00:01:18.269 --> 00:01:21.800 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% education. It may be helping teachers along financially, 24 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.680 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% helping people along financially. And they've all agreed that 25 00:01:25.690 --> 00:01:27.870 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% that's a very positive. Nobody really thought of it 26 00:01:28.379 --> 00:01:30.779 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% , and it's a very positive thing. So you're 27 00:01:30.779 --> 00:01:33.099 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% gonna see data centers are going to be very popular 28 00:01:33.099 --> 00:01:36.540 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% because this is the group and they're the ones that 29 00:01:36.540 --> 00:01:39.040 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% want and they're also the ones that want to see 30 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:43.419 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% communities that are safe and happy and they're going to 31 00:01:43.419 --> 00:01:47.339 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% make communities very, very happy, otherwise they'll be 32 00:01:47.339 --> 00:01:50.889 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% forced to go overseas or other locations. But even 33 00:01:50.889 --> 00:01:53.169 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% in America there are so many people that want data 34 00:01:53.169 --> 00:01:55.370 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% centers, you know, the areas with data centers 35 00:01:55.370 --> 00:01:58.010 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% have become very rich. People have become very rich 36 00:01:58.089 --> 00:02:00.059 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% . Their taxes have gone down, not up, 37 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:02.230 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% and a lot of good things have happened. But 38 00:02:02.970 --> 00:02:05.809 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% these people and others having to do with the data 39 00:02:05.809 --> 00:02:08.809 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% centers that you've been reading so much about, I 40 00:02:08.809 --> 00:02:11.130 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% think they're going to do things for the community that 41 00:02:11.130 --> 00:02:15.460 align:left line:-7 position:10% size:62% will be really financially beneficial and otherwise beneficial.