White House Makes Embarrassing Typo in New AI Agreement
Spelling and grammar nerds are calling out the White House for a major typo on an official government document. Here is a look at the typo and the associated document detailing a change in how the Trump administration is referring to Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Major Typo Leaves White House with Egg on its Face
President Donald Trump signed a new "Super Intelligence" agreement this nobt. That alone should have been the news; however, a typo in the document is grabbing all the headlines. The agreement, signed by the president and some of the leading companies in the AI industry, misspelled the United States, causing an uproar across the internet.
While most documents list "President of the United States" in text below Trump's signature, this document read "President of the Unites States." The agreement was published on September 30 on the official White House X account. It only took seconds for people to recognize the misspelling of the country.
The order instructs U.S. federal agencies to refer to AI as "Super Intelligence" or "SI" in their official websites, reports, public communications, and other printed and digital materials. The document was signed by several of the biggest names in technology, including well-known executives from Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
The White House has not offered details about how the misspelling occurred. Nor have they said if the document will keep the misspelling when it is filed in the Federal Register.
Democrats have had a field day with the typo. For instance, California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted a screenshot of the error with the comment "The Golden Age of Super Intelligence."
About the Super Intelligence Order
While the glaring typo has been getting all the attention since the order was posted online, the contents of the document also bear reporting. The directive explains that “The extraordinary technologies being pioneered by American innovators far exceed what was envisioned when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ first came into use."
President Trump hosted a meeting at the White House the day prior to the document's publication to discuss the future of AI, including its potential dangers and the importance of creating several layers of accountability. The formal document, titled the "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,' came out of this meeting.
The voluntary AI agreement was signed by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
The new AI framework creates four layers of safety oversight, including mandating that tech companies monitor their own AI systems, safety teams from within the company review those safeguards, independent auditors check the security of the work from outside, and company boards offer final oversight. The goal of these four layers is to identify and mitigate potential risks.
The rollout of the new SI term came less than two weeks after Trump posted a poll on Truth Social asking Americans to weigh in on a possible name change for AI. The president wrote that “Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI)."
The president then explained that “This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing ‘Revolution?" Roughly 66,000 people voted in the poll, with the term "Superior Intelligence" taking the top spot. Trump then put "Superior Intelligence" up against "Supreme Intelligence" in another poll posted on X. It was "Supreme Intelligence" that won that contest with 65% of the vote.
Despite the efforts of the White House to rein in the power of AI, several tech leaders have said that self-regulation is not enough to mitigate the threat of AI becoming more powerful than humans. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently appeared on NBC News' "Meet the Press" and said that “No one thinks self-regulation is enough.” Gates added that “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like. And that has to be a required thing. And it will be a little bit of overhead for the industry, but not a dramatic slowing of what they’re doing.”
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