The executive order came after Trump hosted a high-level White House luncheon with leading technology executives, including SpaceX and Tesla chief Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
The administration said the capabilities of modern frontier systems have moved far beyond the original concept of artificial intelligence, a term that dates back about 70 years. Because of the directive, existing regulations, government contracts, grants and historical archival records will not be altered.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the federal government to replace the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” with “super intelligence” and “SI” across executive branch operations, saying the new terminology better reflects the rapid evolution of the technology. The order, titled “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence”, requires federal departments and agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and administrative policy documents. The administration said the terminology used by the government should reflect these expanded capabilities.
The order does not apply the change retroactively.
The administration has also set a 60-day deadline for the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology to submit proposed legislation to Congress.
The proposal is expected to establish a new federal statutory definition of “super intelligence” and suggest corresponding changes to existing US laws. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the industry needed to ensure that people could trust the technology. After the meeting, technology executives and administration officials briefed reporters on a White House Accord focused on developing super intelligence safely.