US government policy documents, press releases, and websites will now refer only to Super Intelligence, dropping the term artificial intelligence.
A new executive order directs federal agencies to stop using the term artificial intelligence in official communications, replacing it with Super Intelligence across policy documents and public-facing sites. The change is administrative branding rather than a technical or regulatory shift.
The order lands the same week AI safety researchers, including former OpenAI and DeepMind staff, went public with warnings that current systems carry extinction-level risk, a sharp contrast in tone between Washington's messaging and the research community's alarm.
Government terminology shapes how contracts, procurement rules, and export controls get written, so vendors selling into federal agencies should expect messaging and compliance language to shift even without new statutory rules. The gap between official optimism and researcher alarm is itself a signal for how regulation may swing later.
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