Trump signs executive order renaming AI to "Super Intelligence", tech CEOs sign voluntary safety accord
President Trump signed an executive order on September 29 directing federal agencies to replace "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" with "Super Intelligence (SI)" in non-statutory documents; the same day CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, xAI, SpaceX and Palantir signed a voluntary AI safety accord at the White House.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 29 directing federal agencies, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to use "Super Intelligence (SI)" instead of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" in official communications, public statements, government websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents. The order argues that "Super Intelligence" better captures the capability of current frontier technologies, which go "beyond merely imitating or automating certain specific aspects of human intelligence," and instructs the President's science advisor to consult with federal agencies within 60 days on a legal definition of "Super Intelligence" and whether existing "artificial intelligence" definitions should be amended, expanded or replaced. Existing regulations, presidential actions, contracts, grants and historical documents do not need to be updated.
The same day Trump hosted a White House lunch with about 20 executives including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, SpaceX/xAI CEO Elon Musk, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, where they signed a one-page document titled "White House Super Intelligence Accord: Joint Commitment to Frontier Responsibility." The accord calls on participating companies to establish layered safety controls including risk monitoring at training and deployment stages, independent external audits, board-level oversight of audit results, and internal teams that continuously check whether safety measures remain effective, with focus on cybersecurity, biosecurity, chemical safety and unauthorized system access.
Trump called the accord "morally binding" and "almost like a constitution," but the document itself carries no legal force and depends on voluntary compliance. House Speaker Mike Johnson characterized it as a "voluntary statement of principles." The Washington Post said the accord is the most significant White House action so far to address AI risk concerns, but falls well short of the government intervention some technical experts warn is necessary as AI capabilities continue to scale.