President Trump replaced “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” across the federal government and secured a voluntary tech safety accord, a move that sidesteps heavy-handed regulation.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the executive branch to drop the familiar “artificial intelligence” label and use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” instead, after a White House summit with leading technology executives who also signed a separate voluntary pact.

Fox Business reported that the order covers official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory materials, and instructs agencies to no longer acknowledge the older terms.

Trump has argued for weeks that the old phrasing no longer matches what the systems can do. The order states the new language better fits the technology’s promise and speed.

"The term 'Super Intelligence' more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies,"

Trump wrote in the order. He had already floated the rebrand last week at the United Nations General Assembly, telling the audience that the country or group that leads in the field wins the future.

"Whoever wins AI, you have to remember this, and now I say whoever wins SI, whoever wins superintelligence, wins. That's the group that wins,"

he said then. The White House gathering turned that language into formal executive action and a parallel industry commitment.

Tech chiefs put signatures on a voluntary safety framework

At the close of the roundtable, the executives signed what the White House calls the Accord on Super Intelligence. Trump described the document as morally binding and said the participants treated it with unusual weight.

"They almost viewed it as a separate kind of constitution,"

Trump said of the signing. He added that when they put their names on it, “it meant a lot.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., framed the paper as a practical middle path. He said the summit focused on balancing the interests of the American people, continued technical progress, and keeping the United States ahead of China.

"This is a statement of principles that you'll see, a statement of standards, commitments that are voluntary on behalf of the industry. It sets forth expectations,"

Johnson said. He summarized the core as “robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review.”

The Washington Examiner published details of the full title, the White House Accord on Super Intelligence Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, and the concrete requirements it places on companies building frontier models: internal controls, an internal oversight team, external audits, and an independent oversight board.

That structure tracks with Trump’s stated preference against formal government guardrails. The voluntary route keeps the labs moving while still writing down expectations the public can see.

Zuckerberg and other lab leaders back the controls

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X Tuesday evening calling the outcome a meaningful advance. He noted that the leaders of every major American lab had signed on to stronger internal checks and layered audits.

"I think it's a significant positive step that the leaders of every major American lab have committed to implementing robust internal controls and multiple layers of audits and reviews,"

Zuckerberg wrote. He added that the commitments should give people more confidence the systems will work as intended.

Reuters reported that executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and Nvidia took part and agreed to voluntary standards that include independent auditors and controls against unintended system access. Trump also told reporters he is weighing a roughly 10-person board to watch safety questions and plans to name a new White House AI policy official.

In the same session he tied the pact to broader build-out of data centers, saying the companies would make large contributions so communities feel the upside of the expansion rather than only the friction. Those infrastructure fights sit alongside other Trump moves that have already drawn partisan heat, including fuel rules that scrap Biden’s electric-vehicle mandate.

Trump calls the accord a form of protection

After the meeting Trump took questions and cast the signed paper in protective terms. Fox News carried his description of the Super Intelligence Accord as “a form of protection,” language that matches his earlier comparison to a constitution-style document signed by the biggest players in the industry and by the president himself.

The order also assigns homework inside the White House. It directs the assistant to the president for science and technology to draft a federal definition of Super Intelligence and to recommend any further executive steps needed to lock in the new terminology.

Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., discussed the summit and the accord on Fox Business’ “The Bottom Line,” underscoring how quickly the rebrand moved from speech to signed paper.

Trump’s larger political calendar remains in view. He has already predicted a strong Republican showing in the 2026 midterms, and the safety-board talk lands as both policy and messaging before that fight.

Federal language change meets industry self-policing

Taken together, the executive order and the accord do two different jobs. One revises how the government itself talks about the technology in everyday documents. The other puts major American labs on record for internal controls, outside audits, and independent review without new statutes.

Johnson’s emphasis on China competition and voluntary standards shows the administration’s preferred trade-off: keep the edge, keep the speed, and still scribe down rules the companies accept. Democrats who want heavier federal mandates will find little comfort here, much as they have on other authority fights where even some in their own ranks have declined to join the pile-on, as when Fetterman alone among Democrats rejected a bid to curb Trump’s Iran military authority.

The same pattern of sharp Democratic reaction has followed other Trump announcements, from press access disputes to high-profile project plans. Obama’s recent criticism of White House press decisions, for example, fit a familiar script even while earlier records of pressure on outlets went unmentioned in coverage of that clash.

None of that changes the operational facts of Tuesday’s package. Agencies now have clear direction on vocabulary. The major labs have a signed joint commitment on frontier responsibilities. And the White House has left formal statutory guardrails off the table in favor of a document Trump says the executives treated almost like a constitution.

American leadership in the next computing wave will not be won by committees that slow every release. It will be won by clear language, enforceable private commitments, and a government willing to let builders move first.