Trump Renames AI ‘Super Intelligence’ in an Executive Order
Federal agencies must stop saying ‘artificial intelligence’ in official communications. The same day also brought America.gov, an AI-powered federal services site, and a self-policing accord signed by six tech CEOs.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week renaming “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence” across the federal government. The order tells federal agencies to use the new term in correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, and policy documents.
The change applies to non-statutory communications. It does not affect existing laws, regulations, contracts, or grants. The White House science adviser has 60 days to propose language defining “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in federal law.
Trump announced the order Tuesday at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., where he also launched America.gov, a new website the administration describes as an AI-powered one-stop shop for federal services. Americans will be able to ask for help with forms, benefits, and documents instead of navigating agency websites.
“Because when you say artificial intelligence, it’s artificial,” Trump said. “This is extreme intelligence. It’s superior intelligence. It’s supreme also intelligence. But the word super is the best word of all and it’s the simplest.”
“This kind of innovation in government is just a preview of what is possible with super intelligence, or SI,” he said. “And that’s the official name in the United States.”
The self-policing accord
The same day brought a separate agreement on AI safety. Trump signed a self-policing accord with the heads of six of the country’s largest AI companies: Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk.
The document calls on the companies to keep “robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended” and to work with independent external auditors. Trump described it as “morally binding” and “almost like a constitution in a way.” Zuckerberg said the idea was to give the public confidence “that the technology works in the way that we intend.”
Musk switched vocabularies on the spot. “It’s worth highlighting the positive benefits of AI — SI, pardon me,” he said, predicting “an age of abundance” and “universal high income.”
The signed document had a rough debut. USA Today reported that the accord’s text includes garbled language, with one passage reading “oversee to receive reports, oversee and receive reports from the terms operating the controls.”
Two views
The day played to supporters of a light government touch. David Sacks, Trump’s former AI adviser, celebrated the gathering on social media, writing that only this president could bring together the top chip, data center, and model developers.
Safety advocates were less convinced. WebProNews noted that earlier rounds of voluntary tech-industry pledges — on data privacy, content moderation, and algorithmic bias — produced uneven results, with companies often meeting the letter of the promises while development raced ahead. The new accord carries no legal weight.
Trump has been skeptical of slowing down. He has rejected calls from researchers and executives to pump the brakes on development, arguing the United States needs to beat China. He teased the “super intelligence” branding last week in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
He also told reporters he would name an AI czar in the “next three or four days.”
