Trump signs "Super Intelligence" order: federal agencies must stop saying AI

#What happened

On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence." The order directs every executive department and agency of the federal executive branch to use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the executive branch "will not acknowledge the usage" of the old terms. Past regulations, contracts, grants, statutes, and historical papers stay as they are — new official speech does not.

The order gives the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST), Michael Kratsios — the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director — 60 days to submit proposed legislative language establishing a federal definition of "Super Intelligence"/"SI" and to identify any additional executive action needed.

#Why it matters

Trump previewed the move at the UN General Assembly on September 22, saying "artificial" made the technology "sound fake." At the America.gov launch event on Tuesday he said: "The word super is the best word of all, and it's the simplest... We don't want to hear artificial. Because it's not artificial. It's very powerful, it's very brilliant."

This executive order is a government directive to federal agencies — it is distinct from the separate voluntary White House safety accord signed the same day by Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia, which is a voluntary industry commitment, not an agency instruction. Separately, PEOPLE reported that the White House's X post showing the signed accord contained a typo: the text below Trump's signature read "President of the Unites States" instead of "United States." The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

#Sources

• White House fact sheet: "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence" (OFFICIAL) — https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/
• WebProNews: "The Super Intelligence Mandate" (REPORT) — https://www.webpronews.com/the-super-intelligence-mandate-trumps-order-that-tells-washington-to-stop-saying-ai/
• Aistify (REPORT) — https://www.aistify.com/trump-super-intelligence-ai-executive-order-safety-accord/
• Implicator.ai (REPORT) — https://www.implicator.ai/trump-super-intelligence-order-keeps-ai-definition/
• PEOPLE (REPORT) — https://people.com/trump-signs-new-super-intelligence-agreement-with-major-typo-below-signature-12149298

Verified September 30, 2026.