President Donald Trump says anyone who continues using “Artificial Intelligence” instead of “Super Intelligence” is “THE ENEMY,” escalating his campaign to replace the industry's familiar vocabulary with his preferred “SI” label.
The declaration goes beyond praising a technology he wants the United States to dominate. It casts the choice of words as a test of allegiance, even though his administration's existing terminology order covers the same systems previously defined as artificial intelligence.
Trump's original Truth Social post states:
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The post does not specify a punishment or name an individual target. It also does not supply a technical test showing that today's systems have crossed a new capability threshold. The claim that the replacement term is “highly accepted” is Trump's characterization.
The renaming already has an executive order
As previously reported by Apex, Trump signed a September 29 directive requiring executive departments and agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of the older terms wherever the law permits. The instruction applies to official correspondence, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory communications.
The order also says the administration “will not acknowledge” the older terminology in applicable settings. Its implementation provisions nevertheless preserve an important boundary:
Nothing in this section requires the alteration of previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents.
For now, “SI” means the technologies covered by the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence. The directive asks the president's science and technology adviser to submit proposed legislative language for a new federal definition within 60 days. It does not itself rewrite that statute or announce penalties for private citizens who say “AI.”
The practical change is therefore immediately visible in official language, while any broader statutory overhaul remains a separate step. A presidential preference does not, by itself, establish how well a model reasons, plans or performs scientific work.
Today's science commitments carry the SI label
A fresh October 8 announcement shows the vocabulary spreading into a substantial research initiative. At the Science: A New Golden Age summit, the administration announced over $6 billion in investments across government, industry, academia and philanthropy.
Within that package, eleven industry partners pledged $2.4 billion in tools and compute credits for the Genesis Mission Consortium. The announcement says the support will reach more than 15 federal agencies working on national science and technology challenges.
Nvidia accounts for $1 billion of those commitments, AMD for $500 million and OpenAI for $200 million. Anthropic and Google contribute $150 million each. Six additional partners make up the remaining $400 million.
Those figures describe announced tools and credits, not a $2.4 billion cash payment already delivered to agencies. They are also one component of the broader summit package, rather than an additional sum to stack on top of its headline total.
The administration's science chief, Michael Kratsios, framed the program in the same language:
Under President Trump’s leadership, we are ushering in a New Golden Age of Science powered by super intelligence, a return to merit, and bold national missions that will inspire Americans for generations to come.
The language change comes as Broadcom and other companies pursue enormous financing arrangements for the underlying computing infrastructure. Apex had earlier reported that its discussions concerned more than $50 billion in financing for OpenAI's custom-chip program. Those talks remain early and are distinct from today's research commitments.