'Can't stand it': Trump demands new name for 'AI'
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on artificial intelligence at the "Winning the AI Race" Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura
July 23, 2025
President Donald Trump spoke at an artificial intelligence summit Wednesday, where he rambled about not liking the name "artificial intelligence."
After giving acknowledgments to notable people in the crowd, Trump bragged about his trade deal with Japan, under which Japan no longer pays tariffs on U.S. goods, while Americans will pay a 15% tax on all goods coming in from Japan.
"We're still in the earliest days of one of the most important technological revolutions in the history of the world," Trump told the crowd. "Around the globe, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. I find that too artificial — get — I can't stand it. I don't even like the name. You know, I don't like anything this artificial. So could we straighten that out, please? We should change the name. I actually mean that. I don't like the name artificial anything because it's not artificial. It's genius. It's pure genius."
He went on to say that Silicon Valley should not be hamstrung by regulations from states.
Trump attempted to insert in his 2026 budget bill a mandate that no state could regulate AI for the next 10 years. It prompted many Republicans to become angry that they had supported the bill without knowing that it contained that provision.
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