diff --git a/mypy/typeshed/stdlib/builtins.pyi b/mypy/typeshed/stdlib/builtins.pyi
index ea9f8c894975..a6065cc6777f 100644
--- a/mypy/typeshed/stdlib/builtins.pyi
+++ b/mypy/typeshed/stdlib/builtins.pyi
@@ -1653,7 +1653,7 @@ _SupportsSumNoDefaultT = TypeVar("_SupportsSumNoDefaultT", bound=_SupportsSumWit
 # without creating many false-positive errors (see #7578).
 # Instead, we special-case the most common examples of this: bool and literal integers.
 @overload
-def sum(iterable: Iterable[bool | _LiteralInteger], /, start: int = 0) -> int: ...
+def sum(iterable: Iterable[bool], /, start: int = 0) -> int: ...
 @overload
 def sum(iterable: Iterable[_SupportsSumNoDefaultT], /) -> _SupportsSumNoDefaultT | Literal[0]: ...
 @overload