Trump says China's Xi 'seemed to like' renaming AI as super intelligence

President Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared to like the term "super intelligence," days after Trump said the US would officially use it in place of the phrase "artificial intelligence."

On social media, Trump wrote on Friday that he had a "very productive" meeting with President XI, adding, "he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE."

The post came after the two dined with dozens of AI tech titans on Thursday, including Elon Musk of Tesla ( TSLA ) and SpaceX ( SPCX ), Jensen Huang of Nvidia ( NVDA ), former Apple ( AAPL ) CEO Tim Cook, as well as Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ).

Artificial intelligence and its regulation were recurring themes at the UN General Assembly this past week.

In his UN speech on Tuesday, Trump said the US would discard the term "artificial intelligence" in favor of "super intelligence" and said he opposed guardrails, rejecting "any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" the technology.

Meanwhile, US ally President Javier Milei of Argentina on Thursday touted the country's vast natural resources and pledge to keep AI unregulated as reasons to invest in the South American country.

Speaking to investors at the Economic Club in New York, Milei pointed to Argentina's energy and mineral resources, along with its vast "land on which to build" AI data centers.

"Argentina has taken a very clear position" on artificial intelligence, Milei said in Spanish. "We are not going to regulate."

The discussion comes as AI titans issue bleak warnings about the risks posed by artificial intelligence and call for oversight.

"If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole," Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic ( ANTH.PV T ), said before the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

OpenAI CEO ( OPAI.PVT ) Sam Altman echoed a similar sentiment, stating, "We could lose control of the future to AI."

Both entrepreneurs said the world needs common standards and protocols to prevent the technology from becoming too powerful to rein in. They also warned that AI could become too concentrated in too few companies or countries.

Ines Ferre is a Senior Business Reporter for Yahoo Finance covering the US stock market, publicly traded companies, and commodities.