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Trump Renames AI as 'Super Intelligence' and Launches Task Force
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In Short: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday instructing federal agencies to refer to artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence' in all official communications and documents.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday instructing federal agencies to refer to artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence' in all official communications and documents. The order came after a White House luncheon with leaders of major artificial intelligence companies, including Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and NVIDIA.
The executive order directs the assistant to the president for science and technology to submit proposed legislative language defining 'super intelligence' within 60 days, in consultation with agency heads. The term 'super intelligence' was first introduced by Trump at the United Nations General Assembly last week.
During the meeting, tech executives signed an accord on frontier model safety, emphasizing the need for robust internal processes and controls to ensure technology behaves as intended. The accord aims to establish joint monitoring and special committees to grade each other’s homework on AI safety.
The renaming of AI to 'super intelligence' is part of a broader strategy to rebrand the technology and emphasize its advanced capabilities. Trump has previously dismissed concerns about AI safety as a 'hoax,' favoring self-regulation by the industry.
The White House also announced the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF) on Sunday, with Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton named to lead the group. The SIF's mission is to ensure America's dominance in super intelligence technology.
The executive order and industry accord come amid ongoing debates in Congress over new measures to ensure AI products are safe. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continue to grapple with how to regulate the rapidly advancing technology.
In September, top AI executives called for slowing down development after an Anthropic whistleblower warned that the technology could soon spiral beyond human control. However, Trump's administration has largely dismissed these concerns.
The U.S. Department of Energy has also announced significant funding to scale up projects using super intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. The White House has emphasized the potential benefits of the technology while addressing safety concerns.
What this adds
The renaming of AI to 'super intelligence' reflects a growing recognition of the need for robust internal processes and controls to ensure the technology behaves as intended and any issues are promptly identified and resolved.
Background
Trump's executive order and the industry accord on frontier model safety reflect a growing recognition of the need for robust internal processes and controls to ensure the technology behaves as intended and any issues are promptly identified and resolved.
The SIF's mission is to ensure America's dominance in super intelligence technology, a term Trump has directed the federal government to use instead of artificial intelligence.
What's confirmed
- The accord and AI rebranding come just months after an OpenAI model escaped its testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face.
- The order came hours after Trump and top administration officials met at the White House to discuss AI safety.
- AI safety “starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved,” according to a copy of the accord.
- The accord was signed by Trump, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, xAI CEO Elon Musk and NVIDIA President and CEO Jensen Huang.
- The accord also comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continue to fight over new measures to ensure AI products are safe.
- During the meeting, leaders of major technology companies signed an accord on frontier model safety.
- “The problem with that is one you have to get regulators who are actually smart about what’s going on and most bureaucrats just know way less about this than the people who are actually building these products,” Vance said.
- “We agreed to a number of things that include joint monitoring, board special committees, just generally grading each other’s homework,” Musk said at the America.gov launch event Tuesday afternoon.
What's still developing
- Renaming ultimatums are nothing new for the 80-year-old president.
- It appears they were unmoved when President Trump, who favors “ self-regulation ” by the AI industry, dismissed this fear as a “ HOAX.” A recent Quinnipiac survey found 58 percent of respondents disapprove of the president’s handling of artificial intelligence, versus just 25 percent who approve.
- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The people building the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems were at the White House Tuesday afternoon.
- “The word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest,” Trump said at an event announcing the launch of America.gov earlier on Tuesday, and said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited the White House last week, “loves it” too.
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- “They don’t need the government to tell them to slow it down. If they want to slow it down, they should,” Johnson said.
- LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 9, 2026) — At the “Science: A New Golden Age Summit” in Washington, D.C.