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Trump Orders Agencies to Rename AI “Super Intelligence”

By Drooid · Oct 9, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC · How we work

Center

AI Strategy Force

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday directing federal agencies to use “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.”
A four-member Super Intelligence Force, led by DNI Jay Clayton, was created to coordinate the government’s AI strategy.
The order applies only to federal entities, allowing private firms like OpenAI to keep “AI.”
A Quinnipiac University poll showed 25% of voters satisfied with Trump’s AI handling, 58% dissatisfied.

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Symbolic Oversight Stunt

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to call artificial intelligence “super intelligence” and warned that using the original term makes speakers enemies.
Critics say the renaming is a symbolic stunt that evades real AI oversight and threatens free-speech protections.
The Justice Department sent an October 6 memo directing attorneys to use “super intelligence” in filings.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX AI unit and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon publicly endorsed the “super intelligence” terminology.

Blindspot

President Donald Trump established a four-member Super Intelligence Force, headed by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, to coordinate the federal government’s artificial-intelligence strategy.
Within this story's sources, this angle appears mainly in Center-leaning coverage and receives less attention in Left-leaning coverage.

History

Historical Context

In April 1975 President Gerald Ford signed Executive Order 11850, restricting chemical herbicides and riot-control agents and showing how a president can dictate technical terminology. That precedent of top-down language control resurfaces in 2024 when former President Donald Trump, via DNI Jay Clayton and backed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, orders AI to be renamed “super intelligence.”

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AI Strategy Force

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday directing federal agencies to use “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.”
A four-member Super Intelligence Force, led by DNI Jay Clayton, was created to coordinate the government’s AI strategy.
The order applies only to federal entities, allowing private firms like OpenAI to keep “AI.”
A Quinnipiac University poll showed 25% of voters satisfied with Trump’s AI handling, 58% dissatisfied.

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