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Super Intelligence rename. On September 29, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled «Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence», which mandates all federal agencies to replace the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with Super Intelligence and the acronym “SI”.
The requirement applies to official communications, websites, reports, and policy documents across the entire executive branch, excluding already issued regulations, contracts, and historical documents. According to the text, the label coined about seventy years ago no longer adequately describes technologies that “go far beyond what was imagined when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was coined”.
Super Intelligence rename: why it matters
Trump added to journalists: “It is not artificial, we all agree on this.” The signing of the executive order took place at the end of a day of meetings at the White House with Elon Musk (X), Jensen Huang (NVIDIA), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet), Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Greg Brockman (OpenAI). The latter signed a voluntary agreement separate from the order: it provides for internal controls, monitoring processes, and independent external evaluations of advanced models, with board oversight.
The agreement, however, does not obligate signatories to adopt the new term. Agencies now have 60 days to propose a formal definition, although in research “superintelligence” already indicates a system capable of surpassing humans in almost all cognitive domains, a threshold that no existing model has reached.
The operation fits into an established practice of the President. On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, an executive order will transform the Gulf of Mexico into “Gulf of America” for federal maps and documents and restore “Mount McKinley” in place of Denali, a name returned to the Alaska peak in 2015, while leaving the designation of Denali National Park and Preserve unchanged. The change applies only to U.S. nomenclature: Google Maps will show the new name to users in the United States and abroad.
In September 2025, it will be the Pentagon’s turn, authorized to use Department of War as an alternative title for the Department of Defense, given that only Congress can legally change a department’s name. On August 27, 2026, Lake Ontario will become “Lake America” for the federal government, despite opposition from Canada and New York State; “we have a gulf and we have a lake,” Trump commented, who now aims for an ocean and relaunched in September a map with New Mexico renamed “New America”.
What changes and what are the effects
The personal attempt was more turbulent: the Kennedy Center board voted in December 2025 to add the president’s name, but in May 2026 a federal judge declared the operation illegitimate and the inscription was removed in June. On the Institute of Peace, however, the name remained.
This precedent suggests the likely outcome for “SI” as well: federal vocabulary will change rapidly, while researchers, businesses, and other governments are not required to follow suit. In the next two months, we will see which definition arrives from the agencies.
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