President Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Super Intelligence (SI)
What the Shift From AI to SI Means
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the United States federal government to adopt “Super Intelligence” and “SI” as new terminology for technologies commonly described as Artificial Intelligence and AI.
Signed on September 29, 2026, the executive order, titled “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,” represents a significant change in the language the U.S. government intends to use when communicating about one of the world's fastest developing technologies.
The order argues that the term Artificial Intelligence no longer adequately represents the expanding capabilities of modern AI systems and directs federal agencies to begin using Super Intelligence or SI in applicable public communications, websites, reports and policy documents.
The move comes as governments, technology companies, researchers and the public continue debating both the opportunities created by increasingly capable AI systems and the risks associated with their rapid development.
From Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has been the dominant terminology for machine intelligence for decades.
The modern term can be traced to the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, widely regarded as a foundational moment in the development of AI as a field.
Seventy years later, the White House is introducing a new terminology into U.S. government communications.
The executive order argues that today's systems increasingly do more than simply imitate or automate individual aspects of human intelligence.
It states that as these capabilities continue developing, they increasingly represent a new era of Super Intelligence.
President Trump reinforced the change while speaking to reporters at the White House following meetings with technology executives on September 29.
The practical consequence is that federal agencies are expected to begin replacing references to Artificial Intelligence or AI with Super Intelligence or SI in applicable government communications.
Under the new federal terminology:
AI = Artificial Intelligence
becomes:
SI = Super Intelligence
The executive order also gives Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, responsibility for considering how the government's definition of Super Intelligence should be developed or expanded.
That process matters because “superintelligence” already has an established and substantially different meaning within AI research and technology.
Super Intelligence Already Has a Meaning in AI
Long before the executive order, researchers used terms such as superintelligence, artificial superintelligence and ASI to describe a hypothetical level of machine intelligence exceeding human cognitive abilities across an extremely broad range of tasks.
IBM, for example, defines artificial superintelligence as a hypothetical AI system possessing an intellectual scope beyond human intelligence.
Artificial superintelligence has not currently been achieved.
The conventional progression is often described as:
ANI → AGI → ASI
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)
ANI describes systems designed to perform particular tasks or operate within defined areas.
Much of today's deployed AI falls broadly within narrow or specialised forms of machine intelligence, even where individual systems can perform many sophisticated tasks.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
AGI describes the theoretical development of systems capable of matching or exceeding human cognitive abilities across a broad range of tasks rather than being restricted to specific domains.
There remains no universally accepted demonstration of AGI.
Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)
ASI goes further.
Artificial Superintelligence generally describes hypothetical systems whose cognitive capabilities would exceed those of humans across virtually every intellectual domain.
That distinction is important.
The White House's new use of Super Intelligence or SI as terminology for AI generally should not automatically be interpreted as an announcement that artificial superintelligence has been achieved.
Instead, the executive order represents a change in U.S. federal terminology.
Why Is the United States Changing the Language Around AI?
The executive order presents the terminology change as recognition of how rapidly AI capabilities have developed.
Modern AI systems can already generate software, analyse large datasets, produce images and video, interact through natural language, assist scientific research, operate tools and participate in increasingly autonomous workflows.
AI agents are also expanding the concept further.
Rather than simply responding to individual prompts, agentic systems can potentially plan tasks, select tools, interact with software and execute multiple steps toward an objective.
The administration argues that describing these increasingly capable technologies simply as “artificial” understates their potential significance.
The terminology change therefore attempts to reposition the technology around what it can potentially accomplish rather than how intelligence is produced.
AI Safety Remains Central to the Super Intelligence Debate
The announcement arrives during an intensifying international discussion about AI safety, cybersecurity, employment, autonomous agents and the level of oversight required for increasingly capable models.
Artificial superintelligence has long been associated with particularly significant questions about alignment and control.
AI alignment refers broadly to efforts to ensure AI systems behave consistently with intended human goals and constraints.
Researchers have also developed the concept of superalignment, referring to the challenge of controlling and governing hypothetical AI systems significantly more capable than humans.
The distinction therefore remains critical:
Super Intelligence as new U.S. government terminology does not necessarily mean Artificial Superintelligence as traditionally defined by AI researchers.
Technology Executives Meet at the White House
The executive order followed a White House meeting involving leaders from the technology and AI industries.
According to reporting surrounding the meeting, executives also signed a separate agreement addressing safeguards surrounding advanced AI development.
The commitments reportedly include external auditing and internal controls intended to assess whether advanced models operate as intended and reduce the risk of harmful autonomous behaviour.
The administration has simultaneously emphasised maintaining U.S. leadership in advanced computing and AI technologies.
This illustrates one of the central challenges surrounding advanced intelligence systems: encouraging innovation while developing governance capable of responding to increasingly powerful technology.
Could “SI” Become the Next Major Technology Acronym?
AI has become one of the most recognisable technology abbreviations in the world.
Whether SI develops comparable recognition remains uncertain.
Government terminology alone does not determine the vocabulary adopted by researchers, businesses, developers or the wider public.
However, adoption by the U.S. federal government gives Super Intelligence and SI substantially greater institutional visibility.
Technology terminology has significant commercial consequences.
Terms including:
AI
LLM
AGI
ASI
Agentic AI
AI Agents
and now potentially:
SI
have become identifiers around which companies, products, research projects and digital brands are created.
As the technology develops, the language used to describe it can influence everything from government policy and investment to company naming, search behaviour and digital identity.
Artificial Intelligence and Super Intelligence as Digital Identity
The terminology change is particularly interesting from a digital real estate perspective.
Domain names frequently reflect major technological categories long before those categories reach maturity.
Artificial Intelligence has already created substantial demand for domains containing terms such as AI, Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Agents, Agentic, Robotics and AGI.
Super Intelligence now introduces another terminology layer.
Domain Investors has been building a portfolio around many of these emerging technology categories, including exact match and highly relevant Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, LLM, robotics, security and advanced intelligence terminology.
Following the growing prominence of Super Intelligence terminology, the portfolio has expanded further into this category with:
AISuperIntelligence.llc
and
SuperIntelligence.kred
These domains complement existing Artificial Intelligence assets including:
ArtificialIntelligence.llc
ArtificialIntelligence.kred
ArtificialIntelligence.ai.in
and the wider Artificial Intelligence digital ecosystem built around ArtificialIntelligence.com.ai.
What Does This Mean for Domain Investors?
For Domain Investors, the executive order is particularly relevant because the company has been building a digital asset portfolio around the terminology shaping the development of artificial intelligence.
The strategy has not focused simply on registering domains containing the letters “AI.” It has targeted terminology representing distinct areas and stages of the technology, including:
Artificial Intelligence
AI First
Large Language Models
Agentic AI
Robotics
Autonomous systems
Zero Trust security
and now:
Super Intelligence
On September 30, 2026, Domain Investors expanded that strategy by acquiring both:
AISuperIntelligence.llc
and
SuperIntelligence.kred
The acquisitions create an interesting parallel within the portfolio.
ArtificialIntelligence.llc
ArtificialIntelligence.kred
ArtificialIntelligence.ai.in
ArtificialIntelligence.com.ai
AISuperIntelligence.llc
SuperIntelligence.kred
This means Domain Investors now controls digital assets positioned around both Artificial Intelligence, the terminology that has defined the industry for decades, and Super Intelligence, terminology that has now been formally introduced into U.S. federal government communications.
The timing is particularly notable.
The Super Intelligence domains were acquired by Domain Investors on September 30, 2026, immediately following the September 29 executive order.
That does not mean the domains have any affiliation with or endorsement from the United States government. Their significance to Domain Investors is instead about digital positioning and terminology.
Domain investing often involves identifying words, phrases and technological categories that may become increasingly important before their full commercial significance is known.
The emergence of terminology such as AI, LLM, AGI, Agentic AI and now SI demonstrates why language itself can become valuable digital real estate.
For Domain Investors, the executive order therefore represents more than an interesting technology story.
It reinforces the company's wider strategy of building a portfolio around the language being used to describe the evolution of intelligent technology.
If Super Intelligence and SI become more widely adopted beyond U.S. government communications, digital identities containing those terms could become increasingly relevant to companies, researchers, platforms and technologies operating within the next generation of AI.
Whether that happens remains to be seen.
But Domain Investors is now positioned across both sides of that terminology transition:
Artificial Intelligence → Super Intelligence
From Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence
The technology industry is evolving extremely quickly.
Artificial Intelligence moved from an academic discipline to a mainstream technology category.
Generative AI introduced systems capable of producing sophisticated content.
Large Language Models brought conversational machine intelligence to hundreds of millions of users.
Agentic AI is moving systems toward increasingly autonomous execution.
AGI remains a major research objective.
Artificial Superintelligence remains hypothetical.
And now the United States government has formally introduced Super Intelligence and SI as terminology it intends to use when discussing technologies previously described as Artificial Intelligence.
Whether the rest of the technology industry follows that terminology remains to be seen.
But September 29, 2026 marks an important moment in the history of AI language.
For decades, the world has talked about Artificial Intelligence.
The United States government has now begun talking about Super Intelligence.
And Domain Investors has positioned digital assets around both.
Domain Investors' Premium AI and .SI Domains for Sale
Domain Investors already control a carefully selected portfolio of premium domains positioned around Artificial Intelligence, AI and the emerging Super Intelligence / SI terminology:
AILLM.si — AI + LLM, combining two defining abbreviations of modern Artificial Intelligence.
AIFirst.si — built around the increasingly important AI First business and technology strategy.
AIBots.si — positioned for AI bots, intelligent assistants, autonomous agents and automation.
AIIT.si — an exceptionally compact combination of AI + IT + SI.
AEYE.si — a distinctive AI brandable that can phonetically represent AI and Artificial Intelligence, while also carrying the additional “AI Eye” interpretation.
Autonomize.si — positioned around autonomous AI, intelligent automation and autonomous systems.
ADAISI.com — a short .com brandable containing both AI and SI, giving it particular relevance to the developing Artificial Intelligence → Super Intelligence terminology.
Together, these assets create an interesting digital identity portfolio around:
AI → Artificial Intelligence
SI → Super Intelligence
AI + SI → Artificial Intelligence + Super Intelligence
The significance of that combination has changed considerably following the introduction of Super Intelligence and SI into U.S. federal terminology.
For Domain Investors, these premium domains now sit directly across two of the most important technology abbreviations of this emerging era: AI and SI.
Domain Investors invest in premium digital real estate, exact match domains, emerging technology terminology and commercially relevant domain names across Artificial Intelligence, financial technology, cybersecurity, Web3 and other developing digital markets.
The portfolio includes assets connected with Artificial Intelligence, Super Intelligence, Agentic AI, LLMs, AI First development, robotics, cybersecurity and other emerging technology categories.
As terminology, technology and markets evolve, digital identity increasingly becomes part of the infrastructure through which new industries establish their presence online.
