Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Use 'Super Intelligence' Term

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 29 directing all federal departments and agencies to replace the terms "artificial intelligence" and "AI" with "super intelligence" and "SI" in official correspondence, websites, and policy documents. The order states the terminology should reflect the transformative capabilities of the technology and the opportunities it creates for Americans.

Trump argued on Truth Social that the word "artificial" implies something fake, insisting the technology represents "pure genius" and that the U.S. must impose a name suggesting total dominance in the race with China. He declared that anyone continuing to use the old term would be considered an enemy of the White House.

“Anyone who continues to use the term 'artificial intelligence,' contrary to the highly accepted and more accurate term 'super intelligence,' will be considered an enemy.”

The mandate follows previous administration efforts to rename geographic features, such as redesignating the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" and proposing "Lake America" for Lake Ontario. Cabinet secretaries and advisors have already adopted the new language in public remarks and official materials.

Linguists and political analysts have compared the enforced vocabulary change to the concept of "Newspeak" from George Orwell's "1984," arguing it aims to suppress skeptical discourse and pre-emptively brand the technology as infallible. Critics note that prescribing mandatory language is atypical for democratic governance.

Elon Musk stated on X that he would rename his company SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, though that specific change has not yet occurred. The administration has also been modifying federal websites and documents to comply with the order since its signing.