The obvious questions, answered.

No. Under the September 29, 2026 executive order, “Super Intelligence” covers exactly the same technologies the law already defines as “artificial intelligence” (15 U.S.C. § 9401(3)). It’s a new label for the executive branch’s documents, not a new technology.

One important distinction: researchers have long used the single word superintelligence to mean a hypothetical system that surpasses human intelligence across the board. That is not what the order means. See the glossary entry.

No. The order applies to non-statutory materials — correspondence, websites, reports, and policy documents. Laws passed by Congress still say “artificial intelligence,” and only Congress can change them. Existing regulations, contracts, grants, and historical documents do not have to be rewritten.

For most people, not directly. The rename applies to the federal executive branch. You may notice federal websites, press releases, and reports gradually switching to “SI” in new materials — but private companies, schools, state governments, and the rest of the world can keep saying “AI.” If you work with a federal agency, you may eventually see the new wording show up in deliverables and correspondence.

No. The executive order covers the federal executive branch only. Private companies can use whatever terminology they like — and so far, the industry still says “AI.”

No. It’s a voluntary agreement signed September 29, 2026, by the president and the leaders of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and NVIDIA. The president called it “morally binding,” but it carries no legal penalties. It does leave open the possibility that its four layers of safeguards could later be written into law or regulation.

.si is the country-code internet domain of Slovenia — and anyone in the world can register one. After the president used the abbreviation “SI” at the UN on September 22, 2026, speculators rushed to register .si names: registrations overtook .ai within about 25 hours and ran near 3,700 a day, versus about 3,500 in the entire month of August. Slovenia’s registry publicly advised trademark holders to secure their .si names.

The White House science adviser (the APST) has 60 days from September 29, 2026 — until about November 28 — to propose legislative language for a formal federal definition of “Super Intelligence,” including whether it should modify or expand the existing legal definition of AI. That proposal is the next real decision point. The timeline will be updated when it lands.

Not so far. The rename is a U.S. executive-branch policy. Europe, for example, still uses “AI” — the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act keeps its name, and the term “artificial intelligence” was itself born in the United States in the 1950s.