Executive Order 14434, "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," is an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on September 29, 2026 and published in the Federal Register on October 2, 2026 at 91 FR 63129 (Source: whitehouse.gov; Source: federalregister.gov). It directs executive departments and agencies to use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official non-statutory documents. It does not change the statutory definition of artificial intelligence; it defines the new terms by reference to that definition and asks for proposed legislation to establish a separate federal definition.
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Status and timeline
Trump announced the change before signing it. In his address to the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2026, he said that all US documents would henceforth use "super intelligence" in place of "artificial intelligence" (Source: theverge.com). After the US–China summit that ended on September 25, the White House said the two leaders had agreed to use the term "super intelligence" in place of "artificial intelligence" (Source: reuters.com).
The order was signed on September 29, 2026, hours after a White House lunch at which Trump released a voluntary AI accord signed with the heads of six technology companies (Source: bloomberg.com). A second order signed the same day, "Streamlining Access to Government Services Through America.gov," uses the new terminology in its own text (Source: whitehouse.gov; Source: klgates.com). The order was filed for public inspection on October 1 and published on October 2 as FR Doc. 2026-20321 (Source: federalregister.gov).
Section 3(b) sets a deadline of 60 days from signing, which falls on November 28, 2026, for the legislative proposal described below.
Key provisions
Section 1 (Purpose) states that the capabilities of current frontier systems "do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence" and "increasingly represent not merely artificial intelligence, but a new era of Super Intelligence." It declares it "the policy of my Administration that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the executive branch shall use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting" (Source: whitehouse.gov).
Section 2 (Implementation) requires agencies, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to use the new terms "in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch." Section 2(b) states that nothing in the section requires altering previously issued regulations, presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents.
Section 3 (Definition) provides that, except where otherwise provided by law, "Super Intelligence" and "SI" mean the technologies and systems encompassed by the term "artificial intelligence" as defined in 15 U.S.C. 9401(3), until superseded by later presidential action or an Act of Congress. Section 3(b) directs the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, in consultation with other agencies, to submit within 60 days proposed legislative language establishing a federal definition of the new terms that "reflects the capabilities described in section 1." The proposal is to include an assessment of whether the new definition should modify, expand, or supersede the statutory definition of artificial intelligence; proposed conforming amendments to existing statutory references; and recommendations for further executive action.
Section 4 (General provisions) contains the standard savings clauses and assigns publication costs to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, whose director, Michael Kratsios, holds the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology title (Source: whitehouse.gov).
The White House fact sheet describes the order as replacing the term "to recognize the continuously advancing technological frontier" and says it directs agencies "to no longer acknowledge the terms 'Artificial Intelligence' or 'AI'" (Source: whitehouse.gov).
Implementation by agencies
The State Department implemented the order through a department-wide unclassified cable dated October 19, 2026, which directs staff to use "Super Intelligence" or "SI" in new letters, emails, public messages, websites, reports, remarks and policy documents. The cable states that "all official titles and the names of Department governance bodies, systems, platforms, inventories, and programs must use SI in place of AI." It exempts language required by law, contracts and grants pending further guidance, previously published documents, and published titles such as America's AI Action Plan, and records that the American AI Exports Program is now the American SI Exports Program (Source: nextgov.com).
Reactions and lobbying
Anthropic's lobbying disclosure for July–September 2026, reported on October 22, lists the order among the issues it lobbied on, alongside AI provisions in the Kids Online Safety Act, export-control provisions in the AI Overwatch Act, and the Ratepayer Protection Act (Source: theverge.com).
The order's use of "Super Intelligence" differs from the meaning of superintelligence in technical and safety writing, where the term denotes systems that greatly exceed human cognitive performance; the order instead defines it as coextensive with the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence (Source: whitehouse.gov). The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, introduced on September 23, 2026, uses its own definition of artificial superintelligence.
Open questions
- The content of the legislative definition due from the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology by November 28, 2026 has not been published.
- How agencies will treat statutory program names that contain "artificial intelligence," which the order and the State Department cable both leave unchanged, is not yet settled.
Relationships
- related: Superintelligence (the technical concept whose name the order adopts with a different definition)
- related: Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: the September 2026 announced proposal
- related: America's AI Action Plan: the July 2025 strategy, Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, Executive Order 14365 — Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (other Trump administration AI instruments)
- related: Donald Trump, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Michael Kratsios
See also
- Executive Order 14320: Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack (the American AI Exports Program, renamed by the State Department under this order)
- Genesis Mission