What happened
Trump signed an executive order on September 29 telling federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence (SI)" instead of "AI" in official letters, websites and policy documents; past documents need not be rewritten.
Why it matters
The order puts SI's definition on hold, temporarily borrowing the existing legal definition of AI, and gives the science adviser 60 days to draft a federal definition for Congress.
What to watch
Most signers of the accord say they will adopt the controls and audits regardless of whether they are made mandatory, so the test is whether that voluntary line holds before any push to write it into law.
WHO IT HITSFederal agency communications staff and contractors will have to rewrite public-facing AI language to "SI," while AI vendors selling to government may face new terminology in procurement and policy documents. Google, named the technical partner for America.gov, will serve citizens using the site.
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The lunch, held in the White House East Room and labeled the "Super Intelligence Luncheon," drew a roster that spanned Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Elon Musk seated beside Trump, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Tom Brown, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, AMD's Lisa Su, Palo Alto Networks' Nikesh Arora and Palantir's Alex Karp. Government attendees included Vice President J.D. Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios and NASA administrator Jared Isaacman.
A separate document, the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence," carries the subtitle "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities" and runs just over 300 words, posted in full by Trump on Truth Social. It states that companies have a responsibility to develop their technology safely and in a way that earns the trust of customers and society, and that companies training and deploying frontier models should adopt a four-layer management and audit system. Signatories agree to meet regularly to set standards and best practices, and the document allows that codifying these measures into law or regulation may make sense in the future.
Alongside the accord, Trump launched America.gov as a single entry point for federal information and services, with a companion order requiring agencies to consolidate online services used by more than 100,000 people per year. Tax filing at the IRS and security-sensitive services at the War Department and intelligence agencies are excluded. Google said it was selected as technology partner and that using Gemini would help more than 100 million people reach public resources faster and more easily. The practical question is whether the voluntary commitments hold once the 60-day deadline for a federal SI definition arrives, and whether the "SI" label changes how agencies actually procure and govern these systems.
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