President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account on September 19, 2026 to propose renaming artificial intelligence and, in a second post the same day, to announce that he is forming an AI Force and will name an AI czar in the near future. The first post, displayed with an 11:29 AM timestamp, presented the renaming as a poll and had drawn 42,206 votes with one day of voting remaining. The initiative matters for business because the vocabulary and the administrative bodies that surround AI are set at the federal level, and both are now in play.
What the two posts said
In the first post Trump wrote that many people consider the words artificial intelligence to be inaccurate and ineloquent even relative to the abbreviation AI itself, and offered three alternatives: Superior Intelligence (SI), Extreme Intelligence (EI) or Supreme Intelligence (SI). Two of the three names share the initials SI in the poll's labeling. The post asked followers to vote on which name is best for what he called an ever-growing revolution. As displayed, it showed 6,214 replies, 2.97k ReTruths and 8.79k Likes. The second post, timestamped 1:12 PM the same day, listed what Trump described as a long series of hoaxes generated by radical-left Democrats to destroy the country, naming Russia and Ukraine, each repeated three times in capital letters, along with global warming, his first and second impeachments, men in women's sports and transgender issues, and adding to that list what he called the decimation of AI. That post drew 1,103 replies, 2.48k ReTruths and 8.14k Likes.
Trump traced the claimed campaign against AI to data centers, writing that it began with an attack on the facilities that largely failed once people recognized how wealthy and prestigious the data centers were for the communities in which they were built, and that higher salaries, lower taxes and safer streets were the result. Critics, he wrote, are now going straight at AI in much the same way the term global warming was changed to climate change, a renaming he described as covering a much larger territory of doubt. He wrote that his administration would not hinder or stifle the growth of what he called an incredible industry, and would instead cherish, help and watch over it as it grows, while also looking for bad conduct through the already existing criminal and civil justice system. For that purpose, he wrote, he is forming the AI Force, much like he did Space Force, which he called a tremendous success in his first term. The post described no mission, structure or duties for the AI Force, and gave no date or responsibilities for the AI czar, saying only that only high-IQ individuals need apply.
What this means for business
The practical consequence for companies that build on AI is that the federal stance is being framed as protection of the industry rather than restriction of it. A president who says his administration will not hinder or stifle growth, and who points to the existing criminal and civil justice system as the mechanism for policing bad conduct, signals that new AI-specific enforcement bodies are not the intended path. For a small company weighing whether to put an AI agent into customer support or sales, that lowers the perceived risk of a near-term compliance shock; for a large enterprise with an existing legal and policy team, it changes less, because sector rules, state orders and procurement terms still govern most deployments.
What the posts do not settle is anything a vendor contract depends on. The AI Force has no stated mission, structure or duties, and the AI czar has no announced date or responsibilities, so neither can be treated as an operating regulator today. The renaming is a poll, not a policy, and the 42,206 votes cast with a day remaining carry no legal weight. Companies should keep asking vendors the same questions: which frameworks and standards the product is assessed against, who is accountable when an agent takes a wrong action, and how data is handled across borders. The claim that AI could reach as much as 25 percent of the country's GDP is Trump's own characterization of the technology's scale, not a forecast from an agency or an analyst, and it should be read as a statement of ambition rather than a planning figure.
The marker to watch is the announcement of the AI czar: whether a named person appears with a defined mandate, staff and budget, or whether the role stays a title without an office. If a czar is named with real authority over federal AI procurement and enforcement, vendors selling to government agencies will face a new point of contact and a new set of expectations, and their commercial customers will inherit those terms. If the announcement does not come, or comes without duties attached, the AI Force remains a rhetorical frame and the practical rules for business stay where they are now.
