Trump’s executive order to rebrand “AI” as “SI”

If there’s one thing that Donald Trump and his sycophants love to do, it’s name or rebrand things to name them after hinself, make them sound more “extra”, or both. Consider: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, often called “The Kennedy Center” The U.S. Institute of Peace The Department of War Palm Beach International Airport TrumpRx, a prescription drug website Passes for national parks Trump Accounts Renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario Trump-class battleships and F-47 fighter plane …and the list goes on. And now the idiocy meaningless renaming has come to tech: John McCarthy, coiner of the term “Artificial Intelligence”, creator of the Lisp programming language and garbage collection, influencer on ALGOL, which influences most programming languages. The executive order, titled INAUGURATING THE ERA OF SUPER INTELLIGENCE, basically declares that “AI”, a term that we’ve been using since 1955 when John McCarthy coined it, should now be referred to as “Super…