Why does the U.S. government now say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI"?
Executive Order 14434, signed 29 September 2026, directs federal agencies to use the terms Super Intelligence and SI in place of AI in official, non-statutory documents. It renames a term for federal use. It sets no new technical standard and does not claim a superintelligence exists.
The full answer
Executive Order 14434, "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence", was signed on 29 September 2026 and published in the Federal Register (91 FR 63129) on 2 October 2026. It directs executive departments and agencies to use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and other non-statutory documents, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
For the purposes of the order, the new terms mean the technologies and systems covered by the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence. The order renames a term for federal use. By itself it does not set a new technical standard or change what any product can do, and it does not claim that a superintelligence now exists.
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