{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-22-trump-unga-rejects-global-ai-control/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-22-trump-unga-rejects-global-ai-control/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-09-22-trump-unga-rejects-global-ai-control","date":"2026-09-22","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Trump at the UN General Assembly 'totally rejects' any global scheme to control AI and renames it 'super intelligence'","deck":null,"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.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Trump on X (Sept 19): poll on renaming AI 'Superior/Extreme/Supreme Intelligence'","url":"https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/2101350559328416142","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"x.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Scientific American: Trump rejects AI regulation, citing parallels with climate change","url":"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-rejects-ai-regulation-citing-parallels-with-climate-change-in-un-address/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"scientificamerican.com"},{"n":3,"title":"Fortune: Trump UN 'globalist scheme' remarks vs Altman/Amodei at the Security Council","url":"https://fortune.com/2026/09/23/trump-un-ai-globalist-scheme-altman-amodei-security-council/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"fortune.com"},{"n":4,"title":"Fox Business: Trump rebrands AI, rejects globalist scheme","url":"https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-rebrands-ai-rejects-globalist-scheme-control-tech","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"foxbusiness.com"},{"n":5,"title":"NBC News: Trump rejects AI guardrails (Sept 14 'hoax' post)","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-rejects-ai-guardrails-rcna597700","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"nbcnews.com"},{"n":6,"title":"The Verge: Trump says the US is renaming AI 'super intelligence'","url":"https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998816/donald-trump-ai-super-intelligence","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"theverge.com"},{"n":7,"title":"FT: Trump rejects 'globalist scheme to control' AI at UN","url":"https://www.ft.com/content/0e03521f-c4f1-4242-8fff-0e34a27a26db","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"ft.com"},{"n":8,"title":"Semafor: White House is isolated in brushing off AI safety","url":"https://www.semafor.com/article/09/25/2026/white-house-is-isolated-in-brushing-off-ai-safety","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"semafor.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-10-07","orgs":["White House","United Nations"],"title":"Trump at the UN General Assembly 'totally rejects' any global scheme to control AI and renames it 'super intelligence'","summary":"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. He compared AI-risk warnings to climate warnings and said he would not \"stifle growth\". He also said he prefers \"super intelligence\" to \"artificial\" intelligence. The next day Altman and Amodei asked the Security Council for international standards.","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)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["policy","us-government","un","international","regulation"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nSpeaking 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.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt frames the split of Sept 2026: labs and much of the world asking for international machinery, and the US government refusing it. 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