The September executive order directs federal agencies to change how they describe AI in official communications and uses the existing federal legal definition of AI for “Super Intelligence”; Axios says the order sets no penalty for using the older term.
The terminology shift is uneven across government-facing surfaces. Axios reports that AI.gov was updated to display “SI.gov,” while its URL remained AI.gov and SI.gov led to an error page. The Office of Science and Technology Policy website still refers to artificial intelligence, and the America.gov chatbot told an Axios reporter that the executive branch uses “Super Intelligence (SI)” rather than the older term. The report says the White House did not respond to a request for comment. These details document a communications change and implementation gap, not a change in the technology’s legal definition or capabilities.