Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Federal Agencies to Replace 'Artificial Intelligence' With 'Super Intelligence'

On September 29, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to replace the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with “super intelligence” and “SI” across official correspondence, policy documents, public communications, and non-statutory materials, and tasked the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology with proposing a federal definition of “Super Intelligence.” The order arrived the same day a group of AI industry executives met at the White House and signed an accord described as “morally binding,” committing to improve internal controls and safety audits; the specific signatories of that accord are not confirmed from the sources reviewed here. CNBC reported the rebranding lands as polling shows Trump’s approval on AI-related issues declining.

This is the written instrument the prior entry flagged as not yet existing. A week earlier, addressing the UN General Assembly, Trump announced the rename as intent — Breaking Defense reported at the time there was “no official announcement from the White House on how this is to be implemented,” and that entry recorded it as “an announced intent until a written directive surfaces” (2026-09-22–trump-unga-renames-ai-super-intelligence-rejects-global-ai-governance). That directive has now surfaced. The load-bearing question that entry posed — whether the rename “reaches solicitation and contract language, where the term ‘artificial intelligence’ carries statutory and procurement definitions” — remains open: this EO covers agency correspondence and non-statutory materials, not statutory terms, so it does not yet resolve whether federal AI safety frameworks or procurement definitions referencing “artificial intelligence” fall out of scope under the new vocabulary.