❯ Trump tells the UN that U.S. documents will say “super intelligence,” as DeepSeek briefs the Security Council

the renamingPresident Trump told the UN General Assembly on September 22 that all U.S. documents will replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence,” because “the use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake.” He said “whoever wins super intelligence wins,” claiming the U.S. is leading China “by a lot.” He also dismissed calls to regulate AI as a “globalist scheme,” saying the U.S. will “only encourage super intelligence,” not rein it in.

Chinese companies at the councilPer Reuters, no Chinese AI company had previously addressed the Security Council. DeepSeek and Moonshot AI were invited to make statements at the September 23 council session on AI and international security, held by the 15-member body during the General Assembly, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also set to brief and diplomats expecting senior Anthropic participation. Liang Wenfeng is not expected to attend. The session comes weeks after several AI industry leaders called for a coordinated slowdown of frontier development. The same day, RAND published its strategy report on the U.S. path to superintelligence, ranking the goals as geopolitical advantage first, human survival with agency second.

two narratives on one stageIn one week, the General Assembly podium says encourage and do not restrain, while the Security Council chamber invites U.S. and Chinese companies to discuss risk. The tension lands on the pace of any cross-border AI governance framework: with the U.S. president publicly rejecting multilateral constraints, the coordinated-slowdown initiative is missing its largest signatory. Chinese labs appearing on the council’s agenda as companies means their voice internationally no longer passes only through their government. Watch whether U.S. and Chinese companies take the same position on “slowdown” at Wednesday’s session.

▪ SIGNALRejecting restraint at the podium while inviting companies to discuss risk in the council — global AI governance received two opposite signals in one week.