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President Donald Trump took his war on the word "artificial intelligence" to a new level on Thursday, declaring on Truth Social that anyone who keeps calling "Super Intelligence" simply "AI" is "THE ENEMY." He called "Super Intelligence" the "highly accepted new and more accurate term" — and made clear the White House now treats the old name as a hostile act.
The post caps a nine-day blitz that began September 29, when Trump hosted the biggest names in tech at a White House luncheon — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Greg Brockman — and announced the federal government would officially rename artificial intelligence "Super Intelligence." An executive order signed that day directs every federal department and agency to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official correspondence, public communications, policy documents and non-statutory documents — and to stop acknowledging the terms "Artificial Intelligence" or "AI" entirely.
The order argues the old name undersells the technology, which can do "much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence." At the same event, Trump and the executives signed what he called a "morally binding" accord on AI safety — the White House Accord on Super Intelligence — a voluntary pact built on internal controls, independent auditors and board-level oversight. Trump called it "almost like a constitution."
Even the true believers needed a minute to adjust. Standing next to Trump on September 29, Musk started to say "I think it is worth highlighting the positive benefits of AI..." before catching himself: "SI... pardon me. Super Intelligence." Trump laughed, thanked him and tapped him on the arm. Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the same on stage, declaring his company no longer builds data centers but "SI factories." Over the weekend Musk went further, posting on X that "Super Intelligence" is the better term and that he plans to rename SpaceXAI to "SpaceXSI" — a post Trump screenshotted and shared on Truth Social without comment.
On Sunday, Trump also announced a Super Intelligence Force, a federal task force led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to coordinate the government's SI work and respond to SI-enabled threats without overregulating the industry. The administration has been policing the vocabulary in real time: Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka scolded Newsmax anchor Ed Henry on air this week for saying "AI race," correcting him — "It's SI. As of this week, it's Super Intelligence." Critics have mocked the rename as a distraction from tougher AI-safety questions, but the White House isn't blinking. With a Trump-Musk meeting now on the schedule, the "SI" era is only picking up speed.