The White House is scrubbing "AI" from federal records. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 30 titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," effectively mandating a linguistic overhaul across government agencies. The directive, reported by ANI, requires all federal departments to replace "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" with "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official communications, websites, and administrative policies. But the order stops at the surface; it explicitly excludes retroactive changes to existing regulations, contracts, grants, and historical archives.
Trump isn't just changing the label; he's aggressively policing the press. On Truth Social, he lashed out at The Wall Street Journal for refusing to adopt the new nomenclature. "When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be," he wrote. He added that the term would be "officially banned" in all relevant documents "in short order" due to its inaccuracy.
The rationale, per the order, is that current tech has outgrown the original framework. The document claims today's frontier systems "do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence," arguing they "amplify human ingenuity" across science and medicine. It’s a bold rebranding effort, likely designed to strip the "artificial" connotation that often fuels public skepticism about job displacement and safety risks.
The move follows a high-stakes White House meeting with tech titans like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai. While industry leaders emphasized collaboration and safety, Trump framed the sector’s growth as unprecedented. The real work is just starting. The Assistant to the President for Science and Technology has 60 days to submit proposed legislation to Congress, formally defining "Super Intelligence" under federal law and recommending changes to existing statutes.