IT Home On October 16, Reuters published a blog post yesterday (October 15) stating that the United States is pushing the international community to replace “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) with “Super Intelligence” (SI) as a common term, and hopes to include this new term in the consensus statement of the International Monetary and Financial Council (IMFC).
According to a blog post cited by IT Home, Erin Browne, the Deputy Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, at the IMF and World Bank annual meeting in Bangkok, said that compared to AI, “superintelligence” (SI) is a better way to describe this emerging technology. She said that the U.S. required federal agencies to use this term last month, and explicitly regarded the promotion of this term as a priority for the U.S.
As the United States is currently the rotating chair of the G20, Washington also hopes that this new term will be more widely adopted at the international level.
According to Reuters analysis, this dispute that seems merely about “changing the name” actually involves power in AI governance, the formulation of international standards, and geopolitical influence. If no consensus can be reached, the IMFC chairman and Saudi Minister of Finance may still issue a chairman statement to summarize the views; another compromise would be to use neutral terms such as “new technologies” instead of “SI” or “AI”.