Truth Check/1 October 2026
“the executive branch shall use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI'”
The claim as it travelled: Executive Order, 29 Sept 2026.
Holds
The claim holds against the page that produced it.
The sentence is in the executive order on whitehouse.gov, which keeps the statutory definition of the term for now.
- Checked Against
- whitehouse.gov ↗Primary
- Read the Check
- Trump orders federal agencies to say 'Super Intelligence', not 'AI'; six AI chiefs sign a four-step accord with no auditor, date or penalty in it
The order binds the executive branch's own words and asks for a legal definition within 60 days; NIST has already rewritten its AI page. The accord the President posted runs to four numbered commitments and a line that codifying them 'may make sense' over time.
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