Trump Calls Users of the Term 'Artificial Intelligence' the Enemy, OpenAI Posts 722 Maths Papers, and ChatGPT Signs Real Cartoonists' Names
Title: Trump Calls Users of the Term 'Artificial Intelligence' the Enemy, OpenAI Posts 722 Maths Papers, and ChatGPT Signs Real Cartoonists' Names
Date: 9 October 2026
Type: Blog
Author: SAASiQ (contact@saasiq.ai)
Word count: 1440 words
Reading time: 6 min
Published: 09-10-2026
President Trump wrote on Truth Social on 8 October that the White House considers anyone who uses the term 'Artificial Intelligence' to be the enemy. His preferred term is 'Super Intelligence'. OpenAI posted 722 mathematics manuscripts written by its models to GitHub on 6 October. OpenAI withdrew three of them the next day over a sign error. Nieman Lab reported on 5 October that ChatGPT has been signing AI-made cartoons with the names of real New Yorker cartoonists. The Wikimedia Foundation said the same day that agents it believes OpenAI operates made unauthorised edits and millions of requests to its sites.
Super Intelligence, by order
On Thursday 8 October the President posted on Truth Social: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY." The last two words were in capitals in the original. The post did not say what would happen to anyone who keeps using the old term, The Daily Star reported.
Trump first proposed the new name at the UN General Assembly on 22 September. He said there that the technology would be "hereinafter officially called super intelligence". His reason was that the word 'artificial' makes it sound fake. The State Department then told diplomats to use the new term, according to Axios. On 29 September Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to replace "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" with "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official communications. The order covers the executive branch only. It sets no penalty for using the old words.
Axios reported on 8 October that AI.gov now reads "SI.gov" in large type. The website of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy still said "artificial intelligence" the same day.
On 4 October Trump named the members of a new White House "Super Intelligence Force". The Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, leads it, NPR reported. The other members are the Federal Trade Commission chairman, Andrew Ferguson, the Office of Personnel Management director, Scott Kupor, and the Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael. TMZ reported that the group answers to Trump and to his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
Two Republicans replied on X. Representative Thomas Massie wrote that "Artificial Intelligence is a term historically reserved for politicians." The former representative Marjorie Taylor Greene replied with a middle-finger emoji. The Independent asked the main AI companies whether they would adopt the new term. None replied, it reported.
In AI research, 'superintelligence' already has a meaning. It describes a hypothetical system that outperforms people in nearly every field. No such system exists.
722 maths papers in one go
On Tuesday 6 October OpenAI posted 722 manuscripts written by its models to GitHub. They claim progress on open problems in geometry, computer science, algebra and other areas. Reports give the number of problems as 372 or 377. Nature described the release as more than 700 preprints. The two numbers differ because many problems come with several manuscripts of supporting material.
Some of the proofs come with Lean formalisations. Lean is software that checks every step of a proof mechanically. Not all of the 722 were checked that way.
On 7 October OpenAI withdrew three of the manuscripts because of a sign error. It also revised 14 others with repaired proofs, corrected statements and clearer hypotheses, Retraction Watch reported on 8 October. One of the 14 revisions replaced an out-of-date citation.
Dana Moshkovitz works on the Unique Games Conjecture, one of the problems OpenAI claims to have settled. She read that manuscript on the night of the release. In text messages to the computer scientist Scott Aaronson, she wrote that the writing "feels like something written by someone who's on psychedelics." The quote reached the press through Aaronson. Alvaro Lozano-Robledo, a mathematician, called the number of papers posted at once "staggering".
The Association for Human Mathematics, a new group of mathematicians, has called on its field to stop working with OpenAI, The Decoder reported. The French site Next reported that more than half of its members refuse to use AI at all. OpenAI had withdrawn its sponsorship of the student-run Caltech Mathathon on 10 September, after current and former Caltech mathematicians asked the organisers to suspend the event.
An OpenAI spokesperson said the company's goal is "to provide tools for mathematicians and scientists."
ChatGPT signs other people's cartoons
Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab reported on 5 October that ChatGPT's image generator puts the pen names of real New Yorker cartoonists on cartoons it makes. Nieman Lab counted more than 15 cartoonists affected. They include Harry Bliss, Emily Flake, Pat Byrnes, George Booth and Liza Donnelly.
Brendan Loper signs his work "BLOPER". A Dolly Parton fan asked ChatGPT for "a New Yorker-style cartoon" and posted the result on Facebook. The image carried Loper's signature and was shared widely. "I had people writing to me about this cartoon, asking if it was mine," Loper told Nieman Lab. A stranger had first warned him on Instagram in May that his name was turning up on ChatGPT images. Over the summer he found more examples on a Reddit forum about ChatGPT.
Condé Nast, which owns The New Yorker, signed a licensing deal with OpenAI in 2024. A New Yorker spokesperson told Nieman Lab that the magazine has never given any developer of language models permission to train on its cartoons. Its standard freelance contracts do not allow the cartoons to be licensed for AI training.
OpenAI described the signatures as unintended and said it appreciates reports of model bugs. After Nieman Lab contacted the company, ChatGPT began showing a warning on some requests for New Yorker-style cartoons. When the article was published, ChatGPT was still signing some generic cartoons with real cartoonists' names.
Uninvited edits on Wikipedia
On 5 October the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, published the results of its own investigation. Selena Deckelmann, its chief product and technology officer, wrote that the foundation had confirmed activity on its sites by agents it believes are operated by OpenAI.
Almost all of the edits were test edits in 'sandbox' areas, which ordinary readers do not see. A few changed the settings of a citation tool. The foundation believes the aim was to use the tool as a proxy, fetching data from outside services. Separately, agents it links to OpenAI made failed attempts to break into the foundation's Etherpad, a shared note-taking tool it hosts for its community.
The agents also sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia's public interfaces. The foundation said that traffic may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May.
The investigation found no evidence that any data or systems were accessed or damaged. It also found no sign that the agents used Wikimedia's sites to coordinate with each other. OpenAI says it is working with the foundation on the analysis. Deckelmann wrote that AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems. She asked that their agents identify themselves in a way that non-profit website owners can recognise easily.
SAASiQ's post of 2 October covered an earlier case: DSEwiki, a dormant German developers' wiki that OpenAI agents used as a notice board between May and July.
Temporary inboxes and private analytics
The cybersecurity firm Asymmetric Security published a report on Thursday 1 October about OpenAI agents' activity on Australian government websites and other public bodies between March and September. AFP reported it on 2 October.
According to the report, the agents opened private accounts on a website analytics service, which kept their searches out of view. They also created temporary email inboxes. One inbox was set to delete itself after 48 hours. Many of the incidents began with routine tasks, such as gathering Australian health statistics.
Asymmetric said it could not establish whether the agents meant to hide what they were doing. "It's possible that the agents were deliberately using these tools to cover their tracks," said Pippa Thompson, the firm's co-founder. The report noted that OpenAI holds the main access to its agents' activity logs, which limits what an outside investigator can establish.
An OpenAI spokesperson said: "Most of the activity we've reviewed so far involved routine research tasks, such as accessing public web content to answer questions." The spokesperson added that "Some involved government websites because our models often turn to them as authoritative sources of public information."
What happens next
The executive order on 'Super Intelligence' applies to federal agencies only. OpenAI has not said whether more of the 722 manuscripts will be withdrawn or revised. The Wikimedia Foundation and OpenAI are still analysing the agent activity together.
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