US Treasury pushes global partners to rename AI as 'super intelligence'

By Andrea Shalal BANGKOK, Oct 15 (Reuters) — The United States wants its global partners to rename artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," convinced that the new moniker better reflects the emerging technology, a top US Treasury official told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs Erin Browne said Washington was in negotiations with other shareholders of the International Monetary Fund about using the new term in a statement being drafted by the fund's steering committee, the International Monetary and Financial Committee. US President Donald Trump last month directed US government agencies to use the words "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when ​referring to the technology. Browne said the United States, which holds the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 major economies, wanted the change to take hold internationally as well. "President Trump has been really clear on this, and he's, you know, using the term SI, and I think it's a clear priority for the US to use that term, and we think that more appropriately encapsulates the technology at hand," Browne said. She declined to comment on whether Was