President Trump Says on Truth Social That His Administration Will Ban the Term Artificial Intelligence in Favor of Super Intelligence
BREAKING: President Trump says he is banning the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI.”
Context
While posted as a Truth Social jab at The Wall Street Journal rather than a formal executive order, an administrative directive replacing Artificial Intelligence with Super Intelligence across federal procurement and regulatory filings would force sweeping terminology revisions across government agencies.
Leading technology companies including Meta have increasingly marketed their consumer and frontier roadmaps around personal superintelligence and superintelligence labs over the past year. At the same time, scores of federal statutes, defense contracts, and executive branch policies currently codify specific legal definitions around the phrase artificial intelligence.
Deep dive
On October 27 at 12:14 PM Eastern Time, President Donald J. Trump published a post on Truth Social criticizing The Wall Street Journal and declaring that his administration plans to replace the phrase Artificial Intelligence with Super Intelligence. The Kobeissi Letter shared a screenshot of the post on X at 12:37 PM Eastern Time, where it rapidly drew nearly 400,000 views and hundreds of replies debating whether the statement represented a literal policy directive or rhetorical branding.
In the verbatim Truth Social post, President Trump asked when The Wall Street Journal would stop using what he called a very bad and inaccurate name, Artificial Intelligence or AI, and start calling it SI for Super Intelligence, which he claimed virtually everyone else is using or soon will be. The post concluded by stating that in short order the administration will officially ban the term AI and Artificial Intelligence in all relevant documents and everything else due to its inaccuracy.
While commentary across financial and technology feeds framed the screenshot as an immediate ban on the acronym AI, the Truth Social post itself was not accompanied by a published White House executive order, an Office of Management and Budget memorandum, or guidance from the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Existing federal statutes such as the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act explicitly define artificial intelligence in law, meaning any formal terminology change would apply only to executive branch communications and internal agency documents unless Congress amends statutory text.
What to expect next
Watch whether the White House follows the Truth Social post with an official Office of Management and Budget or Office of Science and Technology Policy directive instructing federal agencies to substitute Super Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence in upcoming executive branch reports, defense solicitations, and procurement notices. Until a formal memorandum is signed and issued, existing statutory and regulatory definitions across federal agencies remain legally unchanged.