DOJ Calls First Streaming Fraud a 'Super Intelligence' Crime — SkimNews
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- Mike Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday in the first federal music streaming fraud case after pleading guilty to using bots to inflate plays of his own music and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs for millions in royalties.
- The DOJ press release on Smith's sentence was among the first to use 'super intelligence' in place of 'artificial intelligence,' with U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald writing that Smith 'exploited super intelligence technology to generate a fraud.'
- Trump proposed the rename in a Sept. 19 Truth Social poll whose three options were 'Superior Intelligence,' 'Extreme Intelligence,' and 'Supreme Intelligence' — none of which was 'super intelligence' (Superior eked past Extreme 41% to 38%).
- On Sept. 29, Trump signed Executive Order 14434 mandating all executive branch agencies adopt 'super intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence,' after announcing the policy at the United Nations on Sept. 23.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang apologized at a White House tech summit when he accidentally said 'AI,' telling the audience 'I am going to get good at this.'
- Elon Musk said he's ready to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, while Mark Zuckerberg has already been using 'SI' regularly; the article notes no word yet on whether Sam Altman will change OpenAI to OpenSI.
- The DOJ Office of Public Affairs used 'Super Intelligence (SI)' in an Oct. 1 press release about a man arrested for smuggling AI-capable GPUs to China — a week before the formal staff memo went out the day of Smith's sentencing.
Why it matters: The 'super intelligence' rebrand is now landing in federal criminal press releases, with a DOJ prosecutor calling a bot-driven streaming fraud scheme a 'super intelligence' crime. With Trump holding a stock portfolio and tech CEOs at Nvidia, SpaceX, and Meta publicly adopting the term, the rename is locking into official language within weeks of the executive order.
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