(SeaPRwire) – By: Julian Holbrooke
The most jarring feature of the recent White House summit was not the safety pledge, but the linguistic surgery performed on the term “Artificial Intelligence.” Donald Trump, joined by leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta, and others, signed a “morally binding” voluntary accord. Simultaneously, an executive order mandates that all government agencies replace “Artificial Intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” or “SI.” The rationale is superficial. “Artificial” sounds fake. “Super” sounds real. This is not a technical correction. It is a strategic rebranding designed to strip the apocalyptic weight from the technology. By renaming the beast, the administration aims to calm public anxiety over data centers and existential risk. The goal is to pivot the public mood from fear of catastrophe to excitement over a golden age.
The official narrative frames this gathering as a triumph of American individualism. Republicans champion AI as a tool to boost personal capability and rugged self-reliance. However, the structural reality of the technology contradicts this patriotic theater. Building frontier models requires massive centralization. Billions of gigabytes of data are hoovered into data centers controlled by a handful of corporate entities. Your private intellectual ownership is effectively expropriated. Every book published before the AI era, every video posted to YouTube, is harvested as “AI food.” This centralized system redistributes the results of collective labor to anyone who buys a token. It is a top-down infrastructure for information redistribution, mirroring the mechanics of a collectivist state rather than a free market.
The ideological subtext here is stark. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has long argued that AI is essentially communist, a view shared by many tech leaders who are now pushing for socialist economic frameworks. Sam Altman of OpenAI advocates for universal basic income, later walking it back to “universal basic compute.” Mark Zuckerberg of Meta echoes this, arguing for equal distribution of computational power to “empower” the masses. In Marxist terms, these billionaires are advocating for the redistribution of the means of production. They are proposing collective ownership over the very personal data they seized through corporate expansion. The “safety” board established by the government will be overseen by the same executives who built the system. They will define what constitutes a threat. This is not independent regulation. It is self-policing by the elite.
The end result is the engineering of a “New Soviet Man,” as twentieth-century ideologists envisioned. Altman admits in interviews that they train models to represent the “collective of all of humanity.” This is the mathematical average of human thought, stripping away unique perspectives to create a uniform, selfless agent of the common good. The administration sells this as an individualistic frontier. The reality is a centralized machine that hoovers up private data and flattens dissent. The pendulum of geopolitical power is no longer swinging toward distributed liberty. It is locking into a closed loop of corporate collectivism, where the state serves as the PR wing for a digital commune.
Author bio: Julian Holbrooke, an overseas international relations analyst who frequently contributes to major European daily newspapers.