Trump renames AI as 'Super Intelligence'

Has Donald Trump just rebranded AI? This week, the US president declared that artificial intelligence sounds too fake and should be renamed super intelligence instead. Whether SI catches on remains to be seen but, as the world debates what to call the technology, a much bigger question is emerging: who gets to control it?

In this episode of AI Decoded, we examine a pivotal week for artificial intelligence as Donald Trump meets Chinese president Xi Jinping, with AI expected to be high on the agenda. As Washington and Beijing compete for technological dominance, the battle is no longer just about building the most powerful AI systems; it's about setting the rules the rest of the world may have to follow.

At the United Nations, a growing coalition of countries has backed calls for a global AI watchdog. But neither the United States nor China has signed up. So who should police AI? Can there be a global rule book? And what happens if nobody is in charge?

Joining the panel are Parmy Olson, Bloomberg technology columnist and author of Supremacy, and Winston Ma, former executive at China Investment Corporation, alongside AI Decoded co-host Priya Lakhani. Together they explore the intensifying AI rivalry between the world's two superpowers, competing visions for regulating the technology, and whether international cooperation is still possible.