Will Trump Rename AI? Polymarket Prices a Coin Flip by Tomorrow and 69% by Year-End
President Donald Trump moved to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in federal language, and one State Department bureau had already started using the new wording. A Polymarket contract tracked the chance of a formal renaming by Sept. 30 and by year-end, while later coverage said Trump signed an AI document and pressed the new term in federal agencies.
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Federal employees, policy staff, and anyone following executive branch language would notice the shift in terminology right away, because one bureau was already using “super” wording and later a directive told agencies to replace “AI” with “Super Intelligence.” That changes how the term appears in day-to-day federal documents and communications, even before any broader legislation is written.
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The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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