President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop using the term “artificial intelligence” and instead refer to the technology as “Super Intelligence” or “SI,” and joined major tech company leaders in signing a safety accord.
The order says current frontier systems go far beyond simple automation and now amplify human creativity and problem-solving in science, medicine, and other fields. To reflect that shift, executive branch agencies must use the new terminology in official documents, websites, reports, and public communications, to the extent allowed by law. Existing laws, regulations, contracts, and past documents do not have to be rewritten.
The order also says that “Super Intelligence” will use the government’s existing legal definition of artificial intelligence for now. Within 60 days, the White House science adviser must propose new language for Congress to consider that would establish a formal definition of “Super Intelligence” in federal law.
Alongside the order, the White House released a voluntary industry agreement titled the “White House Accord on Super Intelligence.” It was signed by President Trump and the leaders of several major technology companies: Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia.
The companies committed to four layers of internal controls and independent oversight when training and deploying advanced “frontier” systems. These include monitoring for cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical risks; empowering internal teams to fix problems; using outside auditors; and having independent board committees review the process. The companies also pledged to meet regularly to develop shared safety standards.
The accord said the steps could eventually form the basis for future regulations.
