President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order directing the United States government to officially replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence.” According to reporting by The Verge, the change applies to all official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases issued by the executive branch. The announcement quoted the president defending the terminology by stating that “the word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest.” Moving forward, federal agencies must adopt this specific nomenclature in all public-facing materials and official communications.
Official Terminology Shifts in Federal Policy
Governments frequently use executive orders to standardize terminology across federal agencies, ensuring unified messaging in legal and policy documents. While shifts in administrative vocabulary are common when a new presidential administration takes office, mandating a specific colloquial modifier like “super” for a broad technological field is an unusual regulatory intervention. The directive immediately impacts how federal departments discuss computational systems, research initiatives, and technological policy going forward.
Unanswered Questions and Implementation Details
Despite the clarity of the naming mandate, the announcement did not specify how existing federal archives containing the older terminology will be handled, nor whether federal grants and academic research funding agreements must be updated to reflect the new phrasing. It remains unclear how long agencies will be given to audit and replace instances of the former terminology across thousands of digital pages and administrative documents. Observers will need to watch for future guidance from administrative offices to see how strictly the linguistic shift is enforced across different branches of government.
Federal agencies are expected to begin updating their public portals and official documents to comply with the directive in the coming weeks.
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