Donald Trump: rejects slowing AI and claims a U.S. lead over China

‘We're leading by at least a year and maybe a year and a half. Some people say two years’

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TRUMP: "Why is it important that technology, super intelligence versus SI? Why is it important to have super intelligence- Well, I, I say this, that super intelligence, SI, I don't call it AI anymore. I call it SI 'cause it's a much better name. It's a much more accurate name because when you say the other, it, it means it's fake. Artificial means it's fake, and it's not fake. It's just, it's very strong intelligence. So- Mr., Mr. President ... I think a lot of people are doing that now. I call it SI. So we had a big talk on SI, and he likes the idea of changing the name to SI, too, because it's much more accurate. It's actually much more elegant, but it's much more accurate, and this country is going to do it 100%. M- many, many- We had a, a lot of talk about it. The United States of America is not gonna be putting on brakes. When they wanna put on brakes, it's just like everybody's gonna be dead. You're all supposed to be dead now because of global warming. Uh, it's like Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. All of these different hoaxes. Well, what they wanna do is they wanna stop our progress because we're leading China by a lot, and we're gonna keep it that way. We didn't spend that much time talking about it. Uh, I would rather not integrate because we're leading by a lot. When you're leading, you don't open it up to each other. We're leading by at least a year and maybe a year and a half. Some people say two years. Uh, I'm not looking to open it up, and we really didn't talk much about it. We did talk about the name, super intelligence."

Source: The White House · Sep 26, 2026 · 92s clip