Trump Orders the Federal Government to Swap “AI” for “Super Intelligence” — and Launches America.gov, an AI Chatbot for Government Services
October 1, 2026
What happened
President Trump signed an executive order titled “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,” directing federal agencies to replace the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” and “SI” across all official communications, websites and policy documents. The science adviser has 60 days to propose a formal federal definition of the term and possible legislative changes. The order does not rewrite existing regulations or create new technology.
The details
Prediction markets saw it coming: Polymarket bettors had forecast the rebranding at odds above 90% before the official signing. Journalist Adam Cochran reported that roughly 12,000 SI-related domain names were registered in advance of the announcement, raising questions about who knew the rebrand was coming and whether anyone profited from advance knowledge.
Hours before meeting with tech executives from Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Palantir and Nvidia at a White House summit, Trump also launched America.gov — an AI chatbot built by the National Design Studio, created by DOGE alumni. The chatbot searches information across roughly 29,000 government websites, runs on both Gemini and Grok, and answers in English, Spanish and French. It reportedly does not save conversations or user details. A second phase planned for 2027 would add transactional tasks like passport renewals and Medicare enrollment.
Why it matters
The rebrand is mostly theater — renaming a term across the federal government costs real time and money while changing nothing about the technology itself, and “superintelligence” already means something specific (a hypothetical AI smarter than humans) that this order isn’t describing. But America.gov is the genuinely interesting product here. A government-services chatbot running on frontier models from two different companies, built by former DOGE staffers, is a real deployment of AI into the machinery of government. The question that matters isn’t what Washington calls AI — it’s whether millions of people start resolving their tax, passport and benefits questions through a chatbot, and what happens when it inevitably gives a wrong answer.
Sources: Business Insider, Fox Business, Benzinga