Category: Politics

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the federal government to refer to artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” a rebranding that touches how agencies talk about the technology but leaves the underlying rules largely untouched. The move is the latest example of an administration using the branding power of the executive pen. Executive…

Rep. Ro Khanna is preparing to introduce artificial intelligence safety legislation that would bar the development or deployment of so-called “recursive” AI systems until adequate safeguards are in place, according to a report from CNBC. The California Democrat, whose district includes much of Silicon Valley, has become one of the more closely watched voices in…

Madison Finance Committee Signs Off on $350K Police Body-Camera Grant Madison’s Finance Committee has approved accepting a $350,000 grant to support body-worn cameras for the city’s police department, advancing one of the most closely watched public safety debates in the capital city in recent years. The committee’s vote clears a procedural hurdle for the funding,…

County officials across West Virginia are calling for a closer look at two issues they say are straining local budgets: the cost of technology systems used by county offices and the process by which counties are billed for housing inmates in regional jails. The concerns, raised as counties prepare for another round of budget planning,…

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Greg Casar of Texas have introduced legislation that would prohibit the development of artificial superintelligence, according to a report from Democracy Now! The proposal, titled the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,” marks one of the most aggressive congressional attempts yet to place hard limits on the frontier of artificial…

American diplomats have been instructed to change the words they use when discussing the technology reshaping global politics and economics, according to reporting by The Associated Press. The guidance directs U.S. officials to favor the term “super intelligence” over the more familiar “artificial intelligence” in their communications, a shift that follows public remarks by President…

Connecticut’s Police Standards Council Takes Up Automated Cameras and Emerging Technology Connecticut’s Police Officer Standards and Training Council turned its attention this week to a subject that has become increasingly central to modern policing: the automated cameras and digital tools that are quietly reshaping how laws are enforced on the state’s roads and streets. The…

North Carolina’s state treasurer says artificial intelligence has helped route nearly $23 million to people and communities still recovering from Hurricane Helene, according to a report from WRAL. The figure highlights an increasingly common pairing in state government: aging record systems, enormous backlogs of data, and machine-learning tools that can sift through both far faster…

A Republican senator is calling for an investigation into the business dealings of Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden, according to NBC News, an unusual bipartisan framing that would place the adult sons of two presidents under the same congressional microscope. The call marks a departure from the way both men have typically been treated…

President Trump said that artificial intelligence will be referred to as “super intelligence” in U.S. government documents, a rhetorical rebranding that would touch how federal agencies describe one of the most consequential technologies of the decade. The remark, reported Tuesday, is the latest example of the president’s habit of assigning new names to institutions, policies…