Trump dismisses AI safety warnings as 'hoaxes' in UN speech, falsely linking them to political opponents
During his address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump dismissed concerns that artificial intelligence could endanger humanity, equating them to what he called the 'Russia, Russia, Russia hoax,' the 'Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax,' and climate change. He claimed the 'very same people' who warned about those issues are now warning about AI. Fact-checkers noted that AI safety warnings come from a broad, bipartisan coalition including industry leaders such as the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind, not from a single political group. Trump also verbally announced during the speech that he would direct all U.S. government documents to replace 'artificial intelligence' with 'super intelligence,' a term experts say does not accurately describe current AI systems.
“The very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming ... are now saying that AI is going to kill us all. This is the group that came up with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax, climate change, open borders.” Quote verified against source
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AI commentaryThis event extends Trump's pattern of reframing legitimate expert concerns as partisan hoaxes, a form of reality abuse. The verbal directive to rename 'artificial intelligence' to 'super intelligence' in government documents represents an attempt to control terminology and frame the narrative, thereby undermining factual discourse on AI safety. This constitutes an abuse-of-power through lexical manipulation, even if not yet formally implemented. The event is part of the same UN General Assembly speech as the event '2026-09-22_trump-falsely-claims-he-settled-eight-wars', showcasing a consistent tactic of dismissing inconvenient truths.
The UN address of September 22 did not invent this dismissal; it consolidated a line that had already been rehearsed on Truth Social eight days earlier, when the President called AI safety warnings a "HOAX" and a "SICK Conspiracy" (2026-09-14). What the General Assembly stage added was the rhetorical architecture: stacking "Russia, Russia, Russia," "Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine," and climate change into a single chain of alleged hoaxes, then slotting AI safety into the same sequence. The move is not new. It echoes the May 19 claim that the UN climate body admitted its own scenario was "wrong" (2026-05-19), and it mirrors the lexical reengineering seen when "mail-in voting" became "mail-in cheating" (2026-03-23). Here, the verbal directive to replace "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" in all government documents extends that pattern--an attempt to overwrite the term experts use with one that sounds aspirational and preempts regulation. The prior analysis correctly identifies this as reality abuse, but I read it as something more specific: the hoax label is not applied to falsehoods; it is applied to any consensus that constrains him. That ordering is itself the finding.