Trump Signs Order Replacing ‘AI’ with ‘Super Intelligence’ Across Federal Government
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing federal departments and agencies to replace the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” with “super intelligence” and “SI” in official use.
The order, titled “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,” requires the change in correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and administrative policy documents “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” It states that the executive branch will not acknowledge the older terms in applicable official settings. The directive is not retroactive and does not alter existing regulations, contracts, grants or historical records.
The administration said modern frontier systems have advanced far beyond the original concept of artificial intelligence, a term dating back roughly 70 years. According to the order, these systems no longer merely imitate or automate aspects of human intelligence but amplify ingenuity and open new possibilities in science, medicine and other fields. The government should therefore use language that reflects these expanded capabilities. For the present, the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence under Title 15 of the US Code will apply to “super intelligence.”
A 60-day deadline has been set for the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology to submit proposed legislation establishing a new federal statutory definition of “super intelligence” and recommending related changes to US law.
The order followed a White House luncheon with leading technology executives, including SpaceX and Tesla chief Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Trump described the shift as an extraordinary opportunity, calling it “the biggest thing there is maybe the biggest thing there’s ever been” and “much bigger than the Internet.”
After the meeting, officials and executives briefed reporters on a White House Accord focused on developing the technology safely. Zuckerberg emphasised the need for public trust that systems work as intended. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stressed industry-government cooperation to ensure safe progress. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton highlighted the national-security importance of American leadership in the field.
The directive marks a formal shift in how the executive branch will refer to advanced computing systems going forward.