You Can Call it SI. It’s still AI
Image generated with AI So, apparently, Artificial Intelligence is no longer Artificial Intelligence . At least not if you work for the executive branch of the U.S. federal government. On September 29, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence . The order establishes a policy directing executive departments and agencies, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official communications and other non-statutory documents. The accompanying White House fact sheet presents the change as recognition that today's technologies have moved beyond what the term "artificial intelligence" originally represented. However, there is one particularly interesting detail: For purposes of implementing the order, SI initially means the technologies already encompassed by the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence. The order then ...