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Trump Issues Executive Order to Rebrand Artificial Intelligence as 'Super Intelligence'

October 4, 2026 at 16:09 EDT

Policy & Regulation
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 29, 2026, directing the U.S. federal government to replace all references to artificial intelligence with "super intelligence" across official communications, policy documents, and agency correspondence. The move came after a White House summit where Trump met with major AI company executives, including leaders from Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia, who signed a parallel voluntary accord titled the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence."

October 2026 · Trump Administration

Rebranding AI as 'Super Intelligence'

Federal agencies directed to replace 'AI' with 'SI' in all official communications following White House summit with tech leaders.

Key Reactions

Supporting

Nvidia, Meta adopt terminology

Resistance

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic maintain 'AI' terminology

Industry Sentiment

Lukewarm

Most major AI companies

Aligned

Select adopters

Researcher Concern

Rebranding conflates distinct concepts—'superintelligence' means systems surpassing human intelligence across all domains, not current task-specific AI systems.

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