Artificial intelligence is getting a new name in the US government.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing executive branch departments and agencies to stop using “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official communications and instead use “Super Intelligence” and “SI”.
The order, titled “Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence”, argues that the new terminology better describes the rapidly advancing capabilities of the technology and the opportunities it could create for Americans.
The executive order requires federal agencies to use “super intelligence” and “SI” across official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory materials.
The administration said the terminology should recognise the “continuously advancing technological frontier” and the “immense opportunity” created by emerging technologies.
Trump also defended the change when speaking to reporters outside the White House.
“It’s not artificial, we all agree on that.”
The order also directs the assistant to the president for Science and Technology to develop a proposed federal definition of “super intelligence” and identify any further executive actions needed to implement it.
The term already has a specific meaning within the AI industry, generally referring to a form of AI that would exceed human cognitive abilities across virtually all areas of thinking.
Such technology has not yet been achieved.
The renaming comes as Trump continues to make US leadership in AI a national priority, particularly in competition with China.
The president has repeatedly rejected calls for tougher government controls on AI development, arguing that the US must maintain its technological advantage.
At a White House lunch on Tuesday, Trump was joined by several major technology executives, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Trump said the technology leaders had helped establish the new terminology, although the document they signed separately did not formally declare a name change.
The executives signed a two-page document titled the “White House Accord on Super Intelligence”, which sets out voluntary commitments for companies developing advanced AI systems.
The accord says companies should develop their technology safely, build internal processes to ensure models behave as intended and meet regularly to establish safety standards.
It also calls for additional internal and external controls, including independent reviews of AI systems.
The document says that “over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.”
Trump described the agreement as “morally binding” when asked whether it was legally enforceable.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who attended the lunch, described it as a “statement of principles” and said the commitments were voluntary.
Johnson said,
“Safety and innovation are not mutually exclusive pursuits.”
The terminology change comes as public concerns over AI and the administration’s approach to the technology grow.
A Quinnipiac University poll conducted from 24 to 27 September found that 25% of respondents approved of Trump’s handling of AI, while 58% disapproved.
The poll had a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points.
Trump has dismissed warnings about AI risks as a “hoax”, even as some technology executives have raised concerns about the potential dangers of increasingly powerful systems.
Senator Mark R. Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticised the president’s approach.
Warner said,
“The companies building the most powerful AI systems are warning us that the technology is advancing faster than our safeguards. The president’s response? To rename it and tell the companies developing it to regulate themselves.”
“But changing what we call artificial intelligence does nothing to address the very real risks that come with increasingly powerful AI systems.”
Trump was also asked why Americans should not be more concerned about AI and whether the government should impose mandatory safety requirements on the industry.
He said,
“Because we have people that love our country and love the world a lot.”
The president has maintained that he does not want to slow the development of AI, with US technological leadership increasingly framed by his administration as a national security priority.
The new terminology therefore applies to how the federal government refers to the technology, while the wider industry continues to use “artificial intelligence” and “AI” as the standard terms.
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