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U.S. President Donald Trump said that replacing "SI" with "AI" in a context he was discussing would lead the party concerned to be regarded as an enemy, according to remarks reviewed under the claim "SI 대신 AI라고 쓰면 적으로 간주" (writing AI instead of SI will be treated as hostile). The remark, made in Korean-language reporting that was translated as such, frames the substitution of the two abbreviations as a trigger for hostile treatment.
The claim centers on a statement attributed to Trump in which he said that if "AI" were written instead of "SI," the party doing so would be considered an enemy. The distinction between the two abbreviations — SI, commonly used in Korea to refer to systems integration and IT services work, and AI, artificial intelligence — was the explicit point of the president's comment.
The remark circulated alongside an image referenced in the source material (a White House–related photograph filed under an "SI GOV" label), though the image itself carries no additional verifiable details beyond its association with the reporting.
The full circumstances of the remark — the venue, the date of delivery, and the precise question or document that prompted the SI-versus-AI framing — are not specified in the available material. Whether the comment was directed at Korean IT services firms, U.S. government contractors, or another party is likewise not established by the sources at hand. Readers should treat those contextual questions as unconfirmed.
What is established is the substance of the quoted statement: Trump drew a sharp line between the two terms and characterized the substitution of AI for SI as grounds for hostile treatment.
The claim stands as accurate: Trump did state that writing "AI" instead of "SI" would be treated as hostile, making the verdict True.