Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI

硅谷正在顺应特朗普试图重命名人工智能的举动。

Musk, Benioff, Huang, and now Nadella have all capitulated to Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ rebrand.

马斯克、贝尼奥夫、黄仁勋，现在还有纳德拉，都已向特朗普的“超级智能”品牌重塑计划妥协。

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” you’d be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he so desires.

当唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布他计划将人工智能（AI）重新命名为“超级智能”时，如果你怀疑这一说法能否流行起来，那是情有可原的。虽然广大民众仍在使用“人工智能”这一术语，但硅谷一些最有权势的人物正在顺应潮流，试图满足特朗普对人工智能进行品牌重塑的强烈愿望。

That Elon Musk was quick to jump on board, promising to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, isn’t surprising. When, hours after Donald Trump declared that “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!” Marc Benioff announced that Salesforce would rename AIForce to SIForce; it seemed like a quick capitulation, but not entirely out of character.

埃隆·马斯克迅速加入这一行列，承诺将 SpaceXAI 更名为 SpaceXSI，这并不令人意外。当唐纳德·特朗普宣称“白宫将任何使用‘人工智能’这一术语，而非广受认可、更准确的新术语‘超级智能’的人视为敌人”几小时后，马克·贝尼奥夫宣布 Salesforce 将把 AIForce 更名为 SIForce；这看起来是一次迅速的妥协，但并不完全出人意料。

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended the summit where the executive order requiring government agencies to use the term “super intelligence” was announced. He’s also aligned himself with Trump, saying he believes the danger posed by AI is overblown. So it was somewhat predictable that when Nvidia declared that it would “commit” $1 billion to scientific advancement, that included “super intelligence research.” Of course, Huang has a lot to lose if he gets on Trump’s bad side.

英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋出席了宣布要求政府机构使用“超级智能”一词的行政命令的峰会。他还与特朗普保持一致，称他认为人工智能带来的危险被夸大了。因此，当英伟达宣布将“投入”10亿美元用于科学进步，其中包括“超级智能研究”时，这在某种程度上是可以预见的。当然，如果黄仁勋惹恼了特朗普，他将损失惨重。

The latest to cave is Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who attended the same AI summit as Huang along with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, Dario Amodei, and Musk. In a post calling for building an “emergency brake” for AI yesterday, Nadella repeatedly referred to the technology as “super intelligence.”

最新屈服的是微软的萨提亚·纳德拉，他与马克·扎克伯格、桑达尔·皮查伊、杰夫·贝索斯、达里奥·阿莫代和马斯克一起参加了与黄仁勋相同的 AI 峰会。在昨天呼吁为人工智能建立“紧急制动”的帖子中，纳德拉多次将该技术称为“超级智能”。

During Trump’s second term, Silicon Valley has repeatedly tried to ingratiate itself with the administration, after having a much more contentious relationship during his first term.

在特朗普的第二个任期内，硅谷在经历了第一个任期内更为紧张的关系后，多次试图讨好本届政府。