U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed changing the name of artificial intelligence and is asking his supporters to vote on the idea, according to Yahoo!ニュース. The outlet reports that the president has put forward three candidate names and invited backers to pick between them.
The report, published on Sunday, September 20, 2026, does not identify the three proposed names. Yahoo!ニュース also gives no indication of how the vote is being conducted or what would follow it.
The proposal concerns terminology rather than the technology itself. Artificial intelligence is the established term used across industry, research and government for computer systems that perform tasks associated with human intelligence. No mechanism exists for a single country's president to formally rename a scientific field, and Yahoo!ニュース does not suggest one.
Trump has not explained his reasoning in the material reported so far, and no response from technology companies, researchers or other governments is included in the account.
What to watch next: whether the three proposed names are made public, and whether the vote produces any formal change or remains a symbolic gesture.