Trump Orders US Agencies to Call AI Super Intelligence

Under the newly signed executive order, the US executive branch will no longer acknowledge the term artificial intelligence or its abbreviation, AI. Moving forward, all official policy documents, press releases, and government websites must exclusively use the term Super Intelligence. While the directive does not require agencies to retroactively alter existing regulations or historical documents, it establishes a strict new standard for all future federal communications.

Trump announced the policy shift during an event launching America.gov, following a White House luncheon with prominent technology executives and government officials. Attendees included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Explaining his aversion to the traditional term, Trump stated that "the word super is the best word of all" and compared the word artificial to fake news. He added that Chinese President Xi Jinping also expressed approval of the new terminology during a recent visit to the White House.

During his remarks, Trump signaled a hands-off approach to governing the technology, advocating for "tremendous self-regulation" alongside existing oversight from agencies like the Department of Justice and the FBI. Addressing the local challenges tech companies face when constructing massive data centers, Trump suggested that firms would resolve community friction by providing local resources and economic support, predicting that these facilities will ultimately become highly popular.

For technology practitioners, policy analysts, and government contractors, this linguistic pivot introduces an unusual administrative hurdle. Organizations drafting federal grant applications, compliance reports, or collaborative proposals must now scrub their vocabularies of AI to align with the new executive mandate. This shift replaces a broadly accepted statutory definition with a term that the tech industry typically reserves for hypothetical, highly advanced future systems, potentially complicating international policy alignment and legal clarity.