White House tells agencies to call AI "super intelligence" and signs a safety accord with tech leaders
An executive order renames the technology in official documents. Hours earlier, the heads of seven AI companies signed commitments on internal controls and outside audits.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to refer to artificial intelligence as "super intelligence" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and policy documents, Nextgov/FCW reported.
The order gives the president's science and technology adviser 60 days to propose legislative language defining super intelligence, including whether the term should modify, expand or replace the legal definition of AI. Trump introduced the term at the UN General Assembly the week before and promoted it at the launch of [America.gov](/article/america-gov-launch/).
An industry accord
Hours before the order, leaders of major technology companies met administration officials at the White House and signed an accord on frontier model safety. It commits each participating company to four layers of control: internal monitoring of its models' capabilities and alignment in areas such as cybersecurity, an internal team overseeing those controls, partnerships with independent external auditors and an independent committee reviewing their reports.
The accord was signed by Trump and by Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. "We agreed to a number of things that include joint monitoring, board special committees, just generally grading each other's homework," Musk said.
What it changes for agencies
For public servants the immediate effect is editorial: new wording in documents and websites. The substantive questions lie elsewhere. The accord is voluntary and relies on companies' own committees and chosen auditors, while several states, led by California, are writing binding rules for independent audits. Agencies buying AI will still need their own testing and contract terms, whatever the technology is called.
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