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Trump Orders Agencies to Replace “AI” With “Super Intelligence”

By Drooid · Oct 8, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Trump bans AI

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered agencies on September 29 to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in communications.
Trump warned anyone continuing to use “artificial intelligence” would be labeled “the enemy” of the White House.
The White House launched a Super Intelligence Force, led by Intelligence Director Jay Clayton, to craft SI threat response plans.

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Anthropic sues Pentagon

Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, a status usually applied to foreign adversary firms.
Anthropic sued the Pentagon over the risk label and obtained mixed federal-court rulings.
Undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering Emil Michael said Anthropic’s guardrails make it hostile to warfighters.
An Anthropic policy official backed the July admin critique of Chinese distillation of U.S. AI models, raising tensions.

History

Historical Context

In 1996 President Clinton moved commercial encryption off the Munitions List to the Commerce Control List, ending the 40-bit export limits that had forced browsers into a weak “international” version. A 1999 amendment then permitted 56-bit encryption exports without backdoors, yet the Commerce Department warned of a $1.5 billion market. Today the Pentagon’s Anthropic label and Trump’s “super-intelligence” directive echo those export-control debates.

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Trump bans AI

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered agencies on September 29 to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in communications.
Trump warned anyone continuing to use “artificial intelligence” would be labeled “the enemy” of the White House.
The White House launched a Super Intelligence Force, led by Intelligence Director Jay Clayton, to craft SI threat response plans.

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