Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Say "Super Intelligence" Instead of "AI"
President Donald Trump pushed his effort to rename artificial intelligence further on October 8, writing on Truth Social that the White House considers anyone who uses Artificial Intelligence rather than Super Intelligence to be the enemy. The post followed an executive order directing federal agencies to replace AI terminology with SI in official communications.
Rollout and inconsistencies
Axios noted a contradiction: parts of the White House's own digital infrastructure still used AI, even as AI.gov was visually changed to display SI.gov. Federal agencies have begun adopting the new terminology.
Why the term matters
In the technology industry, superintelligence traditionally means a hypothetical system exceeding human intelligence across a broad range of cognitive abilities. Relabeling today's AI as SI therefore mixes political messaging with a term that already has a specific technical meaning.
The wider point
Governments are no longer debating only how to regulate the technology; they are also contesting how to describe it.
Sources: Axios and Truth Social, as summarized by TechStartups weekly roundup (Oct 5-9, 2026).
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