Elon Musk Says He Will Rename Company After Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Term
Elon Musk announced on X that he will rename one of his firms to align with President Trump's new designation for artificial intelligence, "Super Intelligence," and posted a related image of a book on the topic.
Elon Musk posted on X that he will rename a company to incorporate the phrase "Super Intelligence," responding affirmatively to a user suggestion to call it "SpaceXSI." He added a brief note, "No more AI SI It’s better," and later replied to himself, "It always was," while sharing the cover of Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.
The comment follows President Donald Trump's executive order issued late last month that rebranded artificial intelligence as "Super Intelligence" and his remarks that AI industry leaders have agreed to use the new term.
"It’s a terrible word. It’s amazing it lived on so long actually," Trump said, criticizing the term "artificial."
Musk's statement comes amid broader discussion of the terminology, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg having used the compound form "superintelligence" in recent essays to describe future capabilities. Analysts note that several AI CEOs attended a Trump-hosted summit and appear to be navigating the administration's branding push.
The shift in language has sparked debate among technologists about the distinction between "artificial intelligence" and the more speculative concept of "superintelligence," which traditionally refers to a hypothetical level of machine cognition that surpasses human abilities.