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Trump Says U.S. Documents Will Rebrand Artificial Intelligence as Super Intelligence

September 22, 2026 at 12:21 EDT

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President Donald Trump told the U.N. General Assembly on September 22, 2026, that U.S. government documents would shift from Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence, or SI, a semantic order that lands amid a broader push to speed AI development and resist new safety constraints. The immediate policy effect remains unclear: no public order had yet been identified, and follow-through could affect recent initiatives such as the proposed AI Force.

September 22, 2026 · U.S. government

AI becomes SI in federal wording

Trump said U.S. government documents would replace Artificial Intelligence with Super Intelligence, while no public implementation order had yet been identified.

new federal shorthand proposed

90+

AI Action Plan policy actions

25%

Trump's possible GDP claim

417-3

House vote on data-center utility impact

Public concern, shown to scale

61%

oppose AI data centers

53%

high environmental concern

63%

see moderate AI risk

What has to happen next

Statement→Formal guidance→Agency changes→Contracts and documents

The missing piece is public implementation guidance that tells agencies how far the wording change should go.

Growth reading

Supporters read SI and the AI Force as a pledge to keep U.S. development moving against China.

Policy concern

Critics flag ambiguity across statutes, contracts, safety rules and a term that already means beyond human level.

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