President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence,” while tech leaders inked a voluntary safety accord he called a form of protection.
President Donald Trump signed the order at the White House after a summit with leading technology executives, directing the executive branch to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory materials. Agencies are to “no longer acknowledge” the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI.”
Fox Business reported the order also instructs the assistant to the president for science and technology to develop a federal definition of SI and recommend any further executive actions needed to carry out the change. Trump has opposed imposing formal guardrails on the technology.
The same gathering produced the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. Participants signed the document at the close of the roundtable. Trump described it as “morally binding.”
In the order itself, Trump stated the case plainly: “The term ‘Super Intelligence’ more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies.”
The move followed remarks he delivered last week at the United Nations General Assembly. There he told the audience, “Whoever wins AI, you have to remember this, and now I say whoever wins SI, whoever wins superintelligence, wins. That’s the group that wins.”
Just The News reported Trump told the room the technology is “not artificial. We all agree on that. And we’re going to be renaming it ‘super intelligence’, officially renaming it.” He said the signing would come Tuesday evening among several orders.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said after the summit that the industry participants focused on striking “the right balance” between “the interests of the American people,” advancing the technology, and keeping the United States’ competitive edge over China.
Johnson described the accord as voluntary. “This is a statement of principles that you’ll see, a statement of standards, commitments that are voluntary on behalf of the industry. It sets forth expectations,” he said. “It’s, in short, summary, robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review.”
Trump went further on the document’s weight. “They almost viewed it as a separate kind of constitution,” he said. “When they signed that, it meant a lot.”
Fox News captured Trump telling reporters the Super Intelligence Accord is “a form of protection.” The exchange came September 29, 2026, after he met the technology leaders.
Reuters reported executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google and Nvidia were among those who agreed to the voluntary standards. The pact calls for independent auditors to check that systems work as intended and do not gain unintended access to other systems. Trump also restated support for rapid data-center expansion and said the companies would make contributions to ease community concerns over power use and costs.
Trump told the group, “It’s almost like a constitution, in a way... And the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president. And it really is a form of protection.” He added that “these big, powerful, very rich, very smart companies are going to be making massive contributions to communities.”
The Washington Examiner published the full title: White House Accord on Super Intelligence Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. The guidelines require companies developing frontier models to maintain internal controls, stand up an internal oversight team, submit to external audits, and answer to an independent oversight board.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X Tuesday evening that the summit was a positive step. “I think it’s a significant positive step that the leaders of every major American lab have committed to implementing robust internal controls and multiple layers of audits and reviews,” he wrote. “This should give people more confidence that the technology each lab is building will work as intended.”
A Reuters/Ipsos poll cited in the coverage found 73 percent of respondents worry AI companies have not done enough to prevent serious harm, and 55 percent favor slowing development. The White House approach pairs the name change and the voluntary accord with continued pressure for infrastructure build-out rather than new statutory limits.
Trump has made clear he prefers industry self-policing backed by ordinary law enforcement against illegal uses, not a thicket of new federal rules that could hand an advantage to China. The executive order and the accord put that preference into practice on the same day.
American leadership in the next wave of computing will not be secured by bureaucrats inventing new restrictions. It will be secured by clear language, voluntary discipline from the labs that actually build the systems, and a government that refuses to kneecap its own innovators.
