Trump Says They Will Officially Ban the Term AI, Pushing "Super Intelligence" in Federal Documents, per ANI
President Donald Trump says they will officially ban the term AI.
"In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, 'AI/Artificial Intelligence,' in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, per ANI.
What Trump Actually Said
Trump singled out The Wall Street Journal for continuing to use the old term.
"When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be," Trump said, per ANI.
He called "artificial intelligence" a very bad and inaccurate name, and argued the technology should be labeled "super intelligence" instead.
Trump did not outline a new formal executive action in the Tuesday post beyond stating the restriction would take effect quickly.
The Executive Order Already on the Books
The Tuesday post followed an executive order Trump signed in late September, titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," per ANI.
The order directs federal executive departments and agencies to replace "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" with "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official communications and operations, to the maximum extent permitted by law, per ANI.
Under the order, the revised terminology is to be adopted in government correspondence, public communications, official websites, reports and administrative policy documents.
Previously issued regulations, existing government contracts, grants and historical archival records will not be retroactively altered, per ANI.
The ban Trump described applies to federal government documents and communications, not to private companies or the public.
Why the Administration Says the Name Is Wrong
The executive order stated that technological advances had outgrown the original framework used to describe artificial intelligence, per ANI.
"The capabilities of today's frontier systems do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence. They increasingly amplify human ingenuity and unlock new forms of creativity, empowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible across science, medicine, and nearly every other domain of human endeavor," the order stated, per ANI.
A White House fact sheet made the same case: "The name Super Intelligence conveys the true capabilities of the technologies being developed today, unlocking new forms of human creativity and empowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible, not simply imitating or automating human intelligence as is implied by the term 'Artificial Intelligence.'"
Trump previewed the shift publicly before signing. In his September 22 address to the United Nations General Assembly, he argued that the word "artificial" made the technology sound inauthentic.
"We don't want to hear artificial because it's not artificial. It's very powerful," Trump said while previewing the order at the launch of America.gov.
Early in October, the president also declared that the White House considers anyone using the term AI rather than SI to be "THE ENEMY!"
What Changes on Paper
For now, the change is primarily terminology used by executive agencies rather than the underlying legal definition. The order defines super intelligence as covering the same technologies and systems included in the federal government's current statutory definition of artificial intelligence.
The directive gives the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology 60 days to submit proposed legislative language to Congress establishing an updated federal statutory definition of "Super Intelligence" and recommending corresponding amendments to existing laws, per ANI.
One institutional rename has already followed. The US Center for AI Standards and Innovation, which itself replaced the AI Safety Institute, now operates as the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence.
The move comes after Trump hosted leading technology executives, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jensen Huang, at the White House for discussions on technological advancement and the development of advanced systems, per ANI.
What It Means for Markets
A federal naming rule does not change a single earnings model, and no company is required to rebrand anything. OpenAI, for example, has not adopted the new name.
What it does signal is administration posture: this White House wants the technology framed as powerful and positive, and wants federal language, and eventually federal law, built around acceleration rather than caution.
That posture is the trade, not the acronym. The names most exposed to federal AI policy, procurement and export rules are NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL and META.
Government-facing AI work is a separate channel, and PLTR is the name traders watch first when federal adoption language shifts.
Options flow in those names reacts to real policy, including chip export controls, federal contracts and the proposed statutory definition due within 60 days of the order, far more than to terminology alone.
The Bottom Line
Trump's "ban" is real but narrower than the headline. A late September executive order already directs federal agencies to call it super intelligence in official documents, and Tuesday's Truth Social post says that ban is coming to all relevant documents in short order.
It does not ban anyone outside the federal government from saying AI, and it does not change the technology, the law's current definition, or any company's product.
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