Trump orders agencies to call AI "super intelligence" and launches an AI government portal

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders at a launch event in Washington. The first, “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence”, directs executive departments to write “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents. Existing regulations, contracts and historical records are exempt, and the president’s science adviser has 60 days to propose legislative language for a federal definition of the term. The second makes America.gov, a new AI chatbot, the single online entry point to federal services.

The White House fact sheet said the new name “conveys the true capabilities of the technologies being developed today”. “We don’t want to hear artificial because it’s not artificial,” Trump said at the launch, Nextgov reported. He had floated a new name in Truth Social posts ten days earlier, and the White House readout of Xi Jinping’s state visit said the two leaders had agreed to use “super intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence”, setting up a US–China “Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue” alongside an incident channel. The order changes wording only; it does not alter statutory definitions.

America.gov answers questions about services such as Medicare eligibility, passports and job searches without requiring an account, drawing on about 29,000 government websites. It was built by the National Design Studio, and US chief design officer Joe Gebbia said it runs on Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok, FedScoop reported. Agencies with large public-facing services must connect to it “as soon as possible”, excluding tax filing and national security, and a second phase due in early 2027 is meant to let people apply for and track benefits inside the chatbot.

Civic technologists were unconvinced that the first phase was new. Mikey Dickerson, the founding administrator of the US Digital Service, told FedScoop: “You announced a demo which solved like the easiest 5% of the problem, and I’m not going to get impressed until you solve some of the actual hard parts.”