Now that it’s ‘SI’, will the ministry’s name change?

Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Min­is­ter Do­minic Smith says he will be guid­ed by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Cab­i­net on whether the min­istry’s name will change fol­low­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s en­dorse­ment of “Su­per In­tel­li­gence” as a re­place­ment term for Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence.

Smith was re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia af­ter Per­sad-Bisses­sar pub­licly backed US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s call for Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence to in­stead be called Su­per In­tel­li­gence dur­ing her ad­dress to the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) on Tues­day.

Asked whether the de­vel­op­ment could re­sult in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence be­ing re­named, Smith said the mat­ter would be for the Prime Min­is­ter and Cab­i­net.