唐纳德·特朗普总统如今已为一个海湾、一个湖泊以及一项技术重新命名。周二，他签署了一项行政命令，要求所有联邦机构停止使用“人工智能”一词，转而称之为“超级智能”（Super Intelligence，简称SI）。
President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying ‘artificial intelligence’ and to call it ‘super intelligence’, or SI, instead.
此外，他在其“真实社交”（Truth Social）账号上发布了该文件的两页内容，副标题为“开启超级智能时代”。在第二页上，可以看到他的签名以及另外六位科技领袖的签名，分别是谷歌的桑达尔·皮查伊、Anthropic的达里奥·阿莫迪、Meta的马克·扎克伯格、OpenAI的格雷格·布罗克曼、xAI的埃隆·马斯克以及英伟达的詹森·黄。
Also, on his Truth Social account, he posted 2 pages from the document, subtitled “Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence,” where on the second page appear his signature and other six tech leaders (Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, xAI’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang).
该命令对文书工作有着详尽的规定：信函、新闻声明、网站、报告和政策文件都必须进行更改。在适用该规则的情况下，政府甚至将不再承认旧有的词汇。
The order is thorough about the paperwork: letters, press statements, websites, reports, and policy documents must all switch, and where the rule applies, the government will no longer even recognize the old words.
命令指出，SI即美国现行法律中已定义为AI的内容。技术相同，法律定义相同，但多了两个新字母。科学顾问迈克尔·克拉齐奥斯有60天的时间为国会起草一份正式的定义，包括是否应取代现行法规中的定义。
SI, the order says, is whatever US law already defines as AI. Same technology, same legal definition, but two new letters. Science adviser Michael Kratsios has 60 days to draft a proper definition for Congress, including whether it should replace the one in the statute.
旧有的规则、合同和拨款项目被豁免。其他所有内容仅在法律允许的范围内适用，而该命令也承认其效力可能有限。
Old rules, contracts, and grants are exempt. Everything else applies only as far as the law allows, which is the order, admitting it may not reach very far.
唐纳德·特朗普总统从发表演讲到制定政策仅用了一周时间。他在联合国大会上提出了这一名称，并辩称“人工”一词让这项技术听起来像是虚假的。
The idea that President Donald Trump had gone from speech to policy in a week. He pitched the name at the UN General Assembly, arguing that ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake.
随后，他向“真实社交”的追随者提供了两个选项，在超过5万张选票中，65%的人选择了“超级智能”而非“卓越智能”，而该命令并未引用其他任何咨询意见。
Then, he put two options to his Truth Social followers, and 65% of more than 50,000 votes went to super intelligence over superior intelligence, as the order cites no other consultation.
白宫的事实清单称，旧名称暗示这些工具仅仅是复制人类的思维。该名称源自约翰·麦卡锡，他在1955年达特茅斯研究工作坊的提案中使用了这一术语。该命令将命名该领域的功劳归于美国科学家，随后却弃用了他们创造的词汇。
The White House fact sheet says the old name implies the tools merely copy human thinking. That name came from John McCarthy, who used it in a 1955 proposal for a Dartmouth research workshop. The order credits American scientists with naming the field, and then retires their word.
至少这些地方都有专门的“仲裁机构”（即负责名称变更的官方机构）来监督名称变更的过程。墨西哥湾在 2025 年 1 月被正式更名为“美洲湾”（Gulf of America），安大略湖（Lake Ontario）也在上个月被更名为“美洲湖”。这两个名称变更的决定都是经过“地理名称委员会”（Board on Geographic Names）批准的，该委员会负责决定联邦地图上应使用的地名。
At least the places have a referee. The Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of America in January 2025, and Lake Ontario became Lake America last month. Both orders went through the Board on Geographic Names, which sets what appears on federal maps.
然而，人工智能技术领域并没有类似的官方机构来监管名称的变更；人工智能技术的名称实际上属于使用该技术的实验室、大学、法院和监管机构，而这些机构在命名时并不遵循白宫制定的任何命名规范或指南。欧盟的《人工智能法案》（AI Act）仍然保留了该技术的原始名称“人工智能”（AI），而加拿大人仍然将这个湖泊称为“安大略湖”（Lake Ontario）。
A technology has no such board; its name belongs to the labs, universities, courts, and regulators that use it, and none of them work from the White House style guide. The EU’s AI Act keeps its title, and Canadians still call the lake Lake Ontario.
这或许就是名称变更所带来的真正后果：在人工智能研究中，“超级智能”（superintelligence）指的是那些能够超越创造它们的人类的机器；这种技术正是参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）极力主张应该被彻底禁止的。在周二的白宫午餐会上，一些与会者就曾警告过这一潜在风险。
This is probably the real cost of the rename. In AI research, superintelligence means machines that outthink the people who built them, the kind of system Senator Bernie Sanders wants to ban outright. Some guests at Tuesday’s White House lunch have warned about exactly that.
如今，联邦政府的官方文件已经承认“超级智能”技术已经出现，而且政府的领导人还表示这个行业能够自行监管这种技术的发展。
The federal government’s own vocabulary now says superintelligence has already arrived, and its president says the industry can police it alone.