Trump Announces Ban on Term AI in Official Documents in Favor of Super Intelligence

President Trump announced that his administration will officially ban the use of the terms "AI" and "Artificial Intelligence" in all relevant government documents, directing that the technology be referred to instead as "Super Intelligence," or SI. The move formalizes a rebranding effort Trump signaled in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, where he argued the word "artificial" makes the technology sound fake.

The policy was codified in Executive Order 14434, signed September 29, 2026, which directs all executive branch departments and agencies to use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official correspondence and applicable settings. The order states that frontier AI systems increasingly amplify human ingenuity rather than merely imitate it, framing the rebrand as a recognition of the technology's limitless promise. Trump also used the UN address to assert that the US "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" the technology.