Trump at the UN General Assembly ‘totally rejects’ any global scheme to control AI and renames it ‘super intelligence’
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Importance: major (4 of 5)The takeaway
In his Sept 22, 2026 UN General Assembly speech, Trump said the US “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control” AI.
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- Importance
- Major (4 of 5)
- Last verified
- 7 October 2026
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Key facts
- Quote: ‘The United States ... totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now’
- Compared AI warnings to ‘the very same people who said we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming’
- ‘Artificial… makes it sound fake’; beforehand he ran a Truth Social poll on renaming AI (‘Superior’, ‘Extreme’ or ‘Supreme Intelligence’)
- ‘I’m not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution’
- On Sept 14 he had called AI-extinction fears a ‘HOAX’ on Truth Social
- Semafor (Sept 25): the US stood alone at the UN in dismissing AI safety concerns, leaving other nations to set nonbinding rules without the home of the largest AI companies
- Origin of the renaming: on Sept 19 Trump ran a poll on X/Truth Social offering Superior Intelligence (SI), Extreme Intelligence (EI) or Supreme Intelligence (SI) as replacements for ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (15.6M views on X)
What happened
Speaking at the 81st UNGA, Trump set out a clear US position against international AI oversight bodies. This came as 22 countries and the UN Secretary-General were proposing exactly such an institution.
Why it matters
It frames the split of Sept 2026: labs and much of the world asking for international machinery, and the US government refusing it. Days later, the US still agreed a bilateral incident channel with China.
Sources
8 sources from 8 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
8 sources: 1 primary, 7 press
Primary
Press
- Scientific American: Trump rejects AI regulation, citing parallels with climate changescientificamerican.com, press
- Fortune: Trump UN ‘globalist scheme’ remarks vs Altman/Amodei at the Security Councilfortune.com, press
- Fox Business: Trump rebrands AI, rejects globalist schemefoxbusiness.com, press
- NBC News: Trump rejects AI guardrails (Sept 14 ‘hoax’ post)nbcnews.com, press
- The Verge: Trump says the US is renaming AI ‘super intelligence’theverge.com, press
- FT: Trump rejects ‘globalist scheme to control’ AI at UNft.com, press
- Semafor: White House is isolated in brushing off AI safetysemafor.com, press
Changes
- Linked the videos “United States of America - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 81st Session”, “Trump Talks S**t at the U.N., Rebrands AI as “Superintelligence” & Praises Mamdani”, “Jimmy Kimmel Threatened by FCC Chairman Robert De Niro, Trump Renames A.I. & Guillermo Dances to NY”
- Added Trump’s Sept 19 renaming poll (15.6M-view X post) as the origin of “SI”
- Added Verge, FT and Semafor coverage; linked the Sept 19 AI Force/czar post and the UN weapons-text entry
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