The White House published an executive order that TechCrunch said President Donald Trump signed this week. It sets a policy that the executive branch will use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "AI", to the maximum extent the law permits. This covers agency letters, public statements, websites, reports and policy papers that are not statutes. The order also says the branch will not acknowledge use of "AI" in any "applicable setting". It does not define that phrase.
For now, the new terms mean the same systems the existing federal definition of "artificial intelligence" covers, in section 9401(3) of title 15. The order does not spell out that text. Section 1 says today's systems do more than copy or automate parts of human thinking. It says they boost human ingenuity. The president's science adviser has 60 days to hand over draft legislation for a federal definition built on those traits. The draft must weigh whether to change, widen or replace the current one. What it will say is not known. Older regulations, contracts and grants need no edits.
The label change alone moves no system in or out of scope. Teams that sell to agencies can check which contracts and compliance papers use "AI" terms. The draft definition will show whether the scope of those terms changes.