Trump Launches Public Poll to Rename AI, Floating 'Extreme' or 'Supreme' Intelligence

President Donald Trump opened an online poll asking the public to help rename artificial intelligence, presenting options that include 'Extreme Intelligence' and 'Supreme Intelligence.' The survey, circulated through his social media channels, invites followers to choose among several alternatives to the standard industry term. It drew thousands of responses within hours, making it one of the day's most-searched technology topics.

The poll arrived without accompanying policy detail or a stated timeline for any official change. Naming conventions for AI are set informally by researchers, standards bodies and product marketers rather than by government decree, so a presidential preference carries no binding force over how labs or companies label their systems. Still, the phrasing caught attention because the Trump administration has spent recent months signaling a more active role in shaping how AI is developed and discussed in the United States.

The options themselves echo language Trump has used before. 'Extreme' and 'Supreme' both lean toward superlatives, a style familiar from his branding of products, buildings and political movements. Neither term maps onto established technical categories such as narrow AI, general-purpose models or frontier systems, which describe capability and risk rather than aspiration.

Reaction online split along predictable lines. Supporters treated the poll as a playful engagement exercise; critics called it a distraction from substantive questions about safety testing, compute policy and federal procurement. Some researchers pointed out that renaming a field does little to change the underlying engineering or the regulatory debates now moving through Congress and federal agencies.

The broader context is a White House that has alternately courted and challenged the AI industry. Recent executive actions have focused on accelerating domestic compute buildout and revising earlier safety-oriented guidance, while tech leaders have jockeyed for influence over those decisions. A public poll on terminology fits that pattern of high-visibility gestures that generate attention without immediate regulatory consequence.

What to watch is whether the poll produces anything beyond a label. If the administration follows through with an executive order, agency memo or official style guidance using the chosen term, the stunt becomes policy. If not, it remains a measure of audience sentiment and little else, leaving the industry to keep calling the technology what it always has.