Trump orders US government to replace ‘AI’ with ‘Super Intelligence’
White House accord with major tech companies calls for voluntary safety controls and external reviews of advanced AI systems
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” in official government communications.
The order instructs agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory material. It also gives the White House science and technology adviser 60 days to propose a formal definition of the new term and assess whether it should replace or modify the existing legal definition of artificial intelligence.
The move came after Trump met with executives from some of the world’s largest technology and AI companies at the White House.
The meeting produced a voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, under which participating companies agreed to strengthen their internal safety controls and undergo independent external assessments of their AI systems.
The framework calls for companies to monitor advanced models during training and deployment, establish internal teams to oversee safety controls, work with independent auditors and have board-level committees review findings.
Companies represented at the meeting included Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia. Trump described the agreement as a form of self-policing by the industry, while the administration has continued to favor voluntary measures over a new broad federal regulatory regime for advanced AI.
The terminology change does not mean AI has been renamed globally. For now, it applies to US federal government communications, while the administration considers whether a new legal definition of “super intelligence” should be established.
