The world's most powerful technology is moving faster than anyone can control. Jobs, elections, truth and maybe the planet are strapped to it like sticks of dynamite. The fuse is already lit.
So the people in charge did what they do best: they gave it a new name. Artificial intelligence is now Super Intelligence. It worked for the Gulf of America. It worked for the Department of War. Surely it'll work here.
Meanwhile, a kid with a manic grin and a lit Zippo is chasing the whole world down the street, and it's running for its life. Don't worry, though: problem solved.
Renaming the bomb doesn't change what it does.