President Donald Trump has ordered US executive-branch agencies to stop using “artificial intelligence” and “AI” in official documents and public communications. The replacement name is Super Intelligence, shortened to SI.
He signed the executive order on September 29, 2026, after a White House lunch with technology executives. The White House titled it “Inaugurating The Era of Super Intelligence.”
Why the new name?
Trump says the word “artificial” makes the technology sound fake. At the UN General Assembly on September 22, he said it is not fake, it is “amazing,” and that US documents should use “super intelligence” instead.
Days earlier, he polled Truth Social followers on three options: superior, extreme, or supreme intelligence. The name in the final order, Super Intelligence, was not one of those three choices.
What the order actually covers
According to a White House fact sheet, the rule applies to the executive branch. Departments and agencies must use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in official correspondence, public communications, and policy documents, and should no longer acknowledge “AI” in those settings.
It does not rewrite laws passed by Congress, and it does not force companies or other countries to change their wording. Outside the US government, people still say AI.
The name already means something else
In technology, “superintelligence” usually means a system smarter than humans across almost every task. Today’s systems are not at that level. Critics say the order is a branding move, not a change in what the technology can do.
Executives at the White House that day included Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk. Some reports say the paper they signed was separate from the renaming order.
In short, the US government is now supposed to say SI in official papers. The rest of the world has not followed.