Overview
- The White House issued Executive Order 14434 directing federal agencies to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" and has begun updating some government documents and websites.
- The administration is pushing a voluntary one‑page industry accord and created a Super Intelligence Force as its preferred approach to managing the technology rather than new binding regulation.
- A handful of high‑profile tech figures have signaled support and some companies have shifted language, but broad adoption across major firms remains uneven and some promised corporate name changes have not yet occurred.
- Researchers and philosophers warn the term "superintelligence" traditionally describes a hypothetical system that far exceeds human cognition, and they say the relabeling conflates distinct technical concepts.
- Experts and pollsters doubt a name change will materially change public views or legal policy, and legal limits mean the government cannot force private companies or the public to adopt the new terminology.