Trump calls for ‘tremendous self-regulation’ of AI at lunch with

There is something almost refreshing about a president who sits down with tech billionaires and tells them, essentially, to behave themselves. The usual script in Washington is to reach for the regulatory hammer the moment a new technology gets popular. Trump instead called for "tremendous self-regulation." That will sound like a joke to anyone who thinks the government needs to control everything. But the people in that room have more to lose than any Senate subcommittee ever will.

The "super intelligence" rebrand is the smarter story here. Renaming AI in official communications is not a gimmick, it is a way to make the government talk about reality instead of buzzwords. When you call something artificial intelligence, it sounds like a gadget. When you call it super intelligence, you are forced to admit that this is a serious, powerful force that deserves serious, careful handling. That framing changes the conversation.

The alternative to self-regulation is not protection. It is a new federal bureaucracy full of people who cannot even use the consumer version of this technology without breaking it. Let the builders set the guardrails. They built it, they understand it, and they know that one catastrophic mistake could bring every regulator in the world down on their heads. That is a stronger incentive than any compliance manual.

We will see if the tech crowd takes the responsibility seriously. If they do not, the government will step in eventually and regret it. For now, Trump is doing what markets actually need: he is getting out of the way and letting the people with the most at stake prove they can act like adults. That is a bet worth taking..