President Trump stunned the United Nations General Assembly this week by declaring the U.S. will scrap the term artificial intelligence altogether, rebranding it super intelligence in every American document from now on. Taking the podium in New York, he flatly rejected what he called a globalist scheme to place the technology under international control, brushing aside growing calls from dozens of world leaders for binding global safety rules. Trump went further, openly mocking the wave of AI doom warnings sweeping the globe, comparing today's alarmists to the very same voices who once insisted the planet would be dead within 12 years because of climate change. Now, he scoffed, those same people are claiming AI will kill us all and robots will attack us.

Behind the bravado sits a real numbers game, the U.S. currently operates well over 4,000 data centers compared to China's roughly 300, a staggering infrastructure gap Trump leaned on hard to back up his boast that America is not just ahead, but dominating. Whoever wins AI wins, he told the assembled leaders, vowing to keep the United States on top of China and everyone else chasing behind. His defiance landed just as more than 20 nations pushed for enforceable global oversight of advanced AI, a pact neither Washington nor Beijing has signed onto. UN chief Antonio Guterres, for his part, urged the two AI superpowers to open a dialogue on managing the risks, invoking Cold War-era diplomacy between the U.S. and Soviet Union as a model, a plea that, for now, Trump appears in no mood to entertain.