Trump orders federal shift to 'Super Intelligence' and signs safety accord with tech executives

Executive order and federal rebranding

On 29 September 2026, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," directing federal agencies to replace the terms "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" with "Super Intelligence" and "SI" across non-regulatory documents, websites, and official correspondence. The three-page order, published on Truth Social, states that American technology has outgrown the initial concepts established when scientists first named the discipline seventy years ago. The directive does not force agencies to retroactively modify already published materials, nor is it legally binding on private citizens or news organizations. In the immediate term, Section 3 confirms that "Super Intelligence" matches the existing legal definition of artificial intelligence. The order requires the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, in consultation with agency leaders, to present a legislative proposal within 60 days to formalize a new federal statutory definition.

Industry accord and four oversight layers

Alongside the executive order, the White House introduced a voluntary safety framework named the White House Superintelligence Accord following a lunch meeting on 29 September. The document was signed by Trump and leaders from six technology companies: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and xAI founder Elon Musk, whose company operates as part of SpaceX. The agreement mandates four layers of internal scrutiny: monitoring model capabilities against cyber, biological, and chemical risks; establishing dedicated internal verification teams; retaining independent external auditors; and setting up independent board committees to oversee compliance and receive risk reports.

Trump framed the self-regulation arrangement as morally binding rather than creating government-enforced mandates with legal penalties.

I think I see a willingness for tremendous self-control. They understand that they have to police themselves.

Public presentation and document details

The document release followed a 19 September survey on Truth Social where Trump tested candidate terms to replace the word artificial, including "Superior Intelligence", "Extreme Intelligence", and "Supreme Intelligence". Trump described the resulting accord as something like a constitution for technology developers, arguing that the sector will generate immense economic expansion while dismissing calls to slow development. Public attention quickly focused on the physical document uploaded to Truth Social, where the signature page contained a typographical error spelling "Unites States" instead of "United States". On the same day, Trump presented an executive order linked to the government portal America.gov during a launch event at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington.

Domain surge in Slovenia

The adoption of the "SI" abbreviation produced immediate spillover for the national domain registry of Slovenia, which uses the .si country code. Register.si, the public entity administering the domain, recorded more than 3,700 new registrations within 24 hours of the announcement in Washington. This single-day volume surpassed the slightly more than 3,500 new registrations recorded across the entire preceding month. The surge brought total active .si domains beyond 200,000, prompting the registry to publicly link the spike to the White House branding shift and advise trademark owners to safeguard relevant domain names.