Trump ordered agencies to rebrand AI as 'Super Intelligence'

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What this means for you

Nothing to act on unless you write for, or sell to, federal agencies: the change is to what government documents call the technology, not to what any model does. Whether procurement language follows is not reported.

At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive order whose single directive was that government agencies stop calling the technology artificial intelligence and call it "Super Intelligence" instead, MIT Technology Review reports. Nothing about the systems themselves changes; what changes is the word federal paperwork uses for them. The outlet frames the order as a loyalty test, but the text available does not say which agencies, companies or people have adopted the term, what adopting it involves, or whether declining carries any consequence.

Key facts

  • ·Trump signed the executive order at the end of September; it contained a single directive. source
  • ·The directive orders government agencies to rebrand what they had been calling artificial intelligence as "Super Intelligence". source
  • ·The article was published on 3 November 2026 and first ran in MIT Technology Review's newsletter The Algorithm. source
  • ·The article characterises the rebrand as a loyalty test; the available text does not name which parties have complied or what compliance requires. source

What the sources say

  • MIT Technology Review AI — Newsletter item tracking which officials and firms have adopted the administration's new terminology for AI.

Sources

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