President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. government will begin referring to artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” using his address to the United Nations General Assembly to call for a new name for one of the world’s fastest-growing technologies.

Trump said the change would extend to U.S. government documents and encouraged other countries to adopt the terminology as well. The announcement came as he rejected efforts to establish international controls over AI.

“The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globality scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now, hereinafter called super intelligence. Changing the name,” Trump told the General Assembly.

Trump argued that the word “artificial” gives people the wrong impression about the technology.

“The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake,” Trump said. “It is not fake. It’s actually amazing. But we have to be careful.”

He then declared that the terminology used by the federal government would change.

“From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world’s will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial,” Trump said.

“In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence — SI,” he added. “Let’s see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better, and it’s much more accurate.”

The announcement could create some confusion within the technology industry because “superintelligence” already has a widely used meaning in discussions about advanced AI. The term generally refers to hypothetical artificial intelligence that surpasses human intellectual capabilities rather than AI technology as a whole.

Trump’s remarks were part of a broader argument against imposing sweeping new restrictions on the technology. Reuters reported that the president reiterated his opposition to additional AI regulation while saying U.S. law enforcement could step in if necessary.

The debate has intensified as researchers, technology executives and policymakers wrestle with how quickly increasingly capable AI systems should be developed and what safeguards should accompany them.

Those concerns have fueled competing approaches in Washington. Some researchers and lawmakers have called for stronger safeguards as AI capabilities advance, while Trump has emphasized rapid development and maintaining the United States’ technological advantage over China.

Trump made a similar argument a day before his U.N. appearance, saying the United States would continue encouraging development of what he called “AI or SI” while relying on federal authorities to intervene if problems emerge.

The president’s announcement adds a new wrinkle to that debate. If his directive is implemented throughout the federal government, agencies would begin replacing one of the technology industry’s most familiar terms with one that, until now, has generally described a far more advanced and still theoretical form of AI.