Trump Orders US Government to Rename AI 'Super Intelligence' — SkimNews
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- Trump signed an executive order requiring the US executive branch to replace "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" in official policy websites, documents, and press releases.
- "Super Intelligence" replaces AI in government usage — Trump called "super" "the best word of all" at the America.gov launch event and claimed Chinese President Xi Jinping "loves it" too.
- The executive order does not require agencies to rewrite past regulations or documents, but US officials are expected not to even acknowledge the terms "artificial intelligence" or "AI" in relevant settings.
- The Trump administration is using "Superintelligence" — an industry term for particularly powerful AI — as a replacement for the broader statutory definition of AI.
- Trump signed the order after a White House luncheon with tech CEOs and government officials; in brief public remarks he was flanked by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
- Tech CEOs at the lunch told Trump there's "a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation," with the DOJ and FBI providing automatic oversight and firms pledging community resources to ease local data-center buildouts.
Why it matters: The administration uses 'Superintelligence' — an industry term for AI exceeding human capability — as the broad government-wide label for all AI. New policy documents must adopt it; past regulations stay as-is. Anyone filing with the executive branch now faces a vocabulary split between 'AI' on existing rules and 'Super Intelligence' on everything new.
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