Trump executive order renames AI to 'Super Intelligence'
A new executive order strikes 'artificial intelligence' from federal communications; policy sites, documents and press releases now say 'Super Intelligence'.
In short
An executive order signed by Donald Trump directs the US executive branch to stop writing 'artificial intelligence' and use 'Super Intelligence' instead on policy websites, in policy documents and in press releases.
At a glance
- Scope per the report: official policy websites, policy documents and press releases of the US executive branch.
- The mandated term is 'Super Intelligence'; 'artificial intelligence' disappears from those texts.
- The basis is an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
- Unverified: the signing date, any compliance deadlines, and which agencies are named.
- Sourcing: one independent newsroom (The Verge); the article page would not load on retrieval.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that removes the phrase 'artificial intelligence' from how the US executive branch describes its own work. The Verge reports that the government's policy pages, its written policy material and its press releases will carry the term 'Super Intelligence' instead.
A naming rule, not a technology program
What changes is the label, not the systems behind it. Procurement, models and funded programs stay where they are; the word that stands for them in government text does not. As reported, the requirement reaches the executive branch — the departments and offices that answer to the president.
Executive orders in the US generally bind that branch rather than Congress or the courts. Whether statutes already on the books are affected is not something the available reporting settles.
The president's stated reason is only partly on the record
The Verge quotes Trump opening an explanation with the words 'The word super is …'. The rest of that sentence was not retrievable for this article. We leave the quote where it breaks off rather than reconstructing it.
What this report cannot confirm
Three things stay open: when the order was signed, what compliance deadlines it sets, and exactly which agencies have to rewrite their pages. The full text of the order was not available to us.
The sourcing is worth stating plainly. One independent newsroom carries this story, and that newsroom's article page did not load when we tried to retrieve it. This piece therefore rests on the headline and opening passage of the The Verge report.
Why a government's word choice is not cosmetic
Terminology in federal text is plumbing. It appears in solicitations, in jurisdiction language, and in the indexes through which documents are found. A rename pushes agencies to touch templates, pages and standing phrasing; what that costs, and how quickly it has to happen, is not documented so far.
Outside the US, nothing shifts for now. The EU AI Act and its national implementations keep 'AI system' as the legal term, and the reporting gives no indication that the two vocabularies will be aligned.
FAQ
What does Trump's 'Super Intelligence' executive order actually do?
It requires the US executive branch to replace 'artificial intelligence' with 'Super Intelligence' on policy websites, in policy documents and in press releases. Further details of the order could not be reviewed for this piece.
Does the term change apply to US laws as well?
That is not established. Executive orders generally direct the executive branch, and the available reporting does not say whether statutes or regulations are covered.
Does renaming AI change US AI regulation?
On the current record, the order concerns wording in government communications. No change to rules or oversight powers is documented.
