President Trump signed an executive order on 29 September directing federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and other non-statutory documents, “to the maximum extent permitted by law”. It adds that the executive branch “will not acknowledge” the older terms.
The change is one of vocabulary, not substance. For now, “Super Intelligence” is defined exactly as “artificial intelligence” already is in federal law, and nothing in the order requires existing regulations, contracts or grants to be altered. The President’s science and technology adviser has 60 days to propose legislative language for a new federal definition.
The White House argues the old name undersells today’s systems. The term is usually reserved for hypothetical AI that surpasses humans across the board; the order applies it to the technology that exists now.
Why it matters: agencies’ powers and the technology itself are untouched, and a new legal definition would need Congress. Separately, news outlets report that tech company leaders signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House; we could not find its text on the White House’s own site, so it is not described here.