AI & Super Intelligence (SI) — Industry Directory

AI and Super Intelligence (SI) by Industry

Thirteen industries, each with its own regulator, its own procurement language, and its own answer to what the AI-to-SI rename actually changes.

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Super Intelligence (SI), formerly called artificial intelligence (AI), is the term U.S. federal agencies began using under Executive Order 14434. If that’s your responsibility within one specific regulated industry, you don’t need the general explainer — you need the version that names your regulator and your procurement language, and shows how your existing contracts and filings sit alongside the clearer federal name. Section 2(b) of the order leaves them as written.

Super Intelligence (SI) is Executive Order 14434’s federal name for AI — and each regulated industry meets it through a different regulator. This directory is the map: thirteen industries, each linked to its own regulator-specific guidance, grouped below so you can go straight to yours.

The One Fact Every Industry Below Shares

Executive Order 14434, signed September 29, 2026 and published in the Federal Register on October 2, 2026 (FR Doc. 2026-20321, 91 FR 63129–63130), directs U.S. federal executive agencies to use “Super Intelligence” or “SI” in place of “AI” in their own communications, “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” (Source: the Federal Register) Section 2(b) explicitly leaves “previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents” untouched (verbatim in the order text) — it does not require any state, self-regulatory body, or private company to change its own terminology, and federal regulators’ existing published rules stay as written.

A few federal bodies have started using the new term internally. The Department of Justice’s Acting Deputy Attorney General directed staff on October 6, 2026 to use “Super Intelligence”/“SI” in place of “AI,” extending “to attorney submissions to courts when appropriate” (Source: Bloomberg Law) — the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has already used “Super Intelligence-Assisted” in a new sentencing press release (Source: justice.gov). The State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs moved first: on September 22, 2026, the day of the President’s UN General Assembly remarks and a week before the order was signed, it told staff to use “SI” in “all remarks, positions and press elements moving forward” (Source: AP via The Hill), and NIST’s own standards center now presents itself as the “Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI)” (Source: nist.gov).

None of that has yet changed the published rules of the sector regulators below, though. As of October 11, 2026, HHS/OCR, FINRA, the NAIC, the GSA, the FCC, and the California and Alabama state bars all still use “artificial intelligence” or “AI” in their own published rules (HHS/OCR, FINRA, the NAIC, the GSA, the FCC, the California and Alabama state bars). California directs its own agencies to continue using “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” (Source: State of California, Executive Order N-10-26, signed September 30, 2026).

The order’s 60-day clock (~November 28, 2026) is the deadline for the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology to propose legislative language for a federal SI/AI definition — not a deadline for any agency to finish a rename (Source: a Cloud Security Alliance research note).

For the full section-by-section mechanics, see Executive Order 14434, explained for businesses and the Super Intelligence (SI) glossary.

Pick Your Industry

Each industry below has its own regulator, its own procurement-language detail, and its own evidence for what the AI-to-SI shift means in that sector, plus a link to Iternal’s AI page for that sector. If your industry isn’t in this list of thirteen, the section below points to broader coverage.

Regulated Services

Healthcare, financial services, and insurance all run on regulator-specific documentation that still says "AI."

Healthcare

HIPAA covered-entity rules and HHS/OCR guidance on clinical AI — still “AI,” not “SI.”

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Financial Services

FINRA guidance still says “AI” (the SEC withdrew its own AI-specific rulemaking in 2025) — how third-party technology contracts read alongside the federal SI name.

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Insurance

The NAIC Model Bulletin and state DOI rules keep “AI” — underwriting and claims implications.

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Government & Defense

EO 14434 binds the federal executive branch first — defense, federal civilian agencies, and state/local government each see it differently.

Defense & Aerospace

DoD CDAO and CMMC — what to watch for if federal contract language starts using “SI.”

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Federal Government

EO 14434 itself and the FAR — the civilian-agency timeline, explained.

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State & Local Government (SLED)

EO 14434 binds federal agencies only — why most state and local RFPs keep “AI” for now.

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Industrial & Infrastructure

Manufacturing, energy, industrials, and supply chain all answer to standards bodies that have not touched their own vocabulary.

Manufacturing

NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework hasn’t been renamed — supplier RFP guidance.

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Energy & Utilities

NERC CIP reliability standards — how grid operators should handle SI-labeled federal materials.

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Industrials

OSHA workplace-safety guidance — predictive-maintenance contract language to watch as federal materials shift to “SI.”

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Supply Chain

CBP and DoD logistics language — what may change first in federal supply-chain RFPs.

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Consumer & Connectivity

Retail, telecommunications, and law firms all face customer- or client-facing disclosure questions as product marketing adopts “SI.”

Retail

FTC guidance on AI claims keeps “AI” — what disclosures should (and shouldn’t) change.

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Telecommunications

FCC filings still say “AI” — federal carrier contract language to watch.

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Law Firms

State bar guidance still says “AI” — engagement-letter disclosure implications.

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Don’t See Your Industry?

This directory covers the thirteen industries where the AI-to-SI shift is most visible right now. Iternal’s existing industry coverage goes further: Enterprise AI by Industry spans 30+ sectors with on-premise and private-deployment guidance, including industries not yet in this list. And if you want the full explainer of what “Super Intelligence” means before picking an industry, start at the Super Intelligence hub.

FAQ

FAQ: Super Intelligence (SI) by Industry

Super Intelligence (SI) is the term Executive Order 14434 directs U.S. federal agencies to use in place of “artificial intelligence (AI).” Iternal supports this name because it describes what today’s systems can already do, not how the technology was originally made. See the full explainer on the Super Intelligence hub.

Only in part. Executive Order 14434 directs federal executive departments and agencies — including HHS and the GSA — to use “SI” in new non-statutory communications, but Section 2(b) leaves previously issued regulations, contracts and grants unchanged, and the order does not bind FINRA, the NAIC or state bar associations. As of October 11, 2026, HHS, FINRA, the NAIC, the FCC, and two state bar associations all still use “AI” in their own published rules.

Four groupings and thirteen industries: Regulated Services (healthcare, financial services, insurance), Government & Defense (defense & aerospace, federal government, state & local government), Industrial & Infrastructure (manufacturing, energy & utilities, industrials, supply chain), and Consumer & Connectivity (retail, telecommunications, law firms).

Not today. Iternal’s product names — AirgapAI, AI Academy, the AI Strategy Blueprint, and the rest — stay unchanged, while Iternal already uses “Super Intelligence (SI)” in its own voice to describe the category those products serve. See the rename guide for the mechanics other teams can use.

As new industry pages ship and whenever a regulator listed here changes its own terminology. The order’s own timeline also includes a November 28, 2026 deadline for a proposed legislative SI/AI definition, which may prompt further updates.

The Super Intelligence adoption tracker tracks companies and government bodies that have renamed something, or said they will not, updated as the picture changes.

Why Iternal Uses the Name in Every Industry Above

Iternal supports Executive Order 14434’s name across the thirteen industries in this directory because the measured results describe what SI does. In a randomized controlled trial of 105,934 women, AI-supported mammography screening achieved 80.5% sensitivity versus 73.8% for standard double reading, with identical specificity (98.5% both groups) (Source: Gommers, Hernström, Josefsson et al., The Lancet 407(10527)), and by Q2 2026, 39.2% of employed U.S. adults used generative AI for work in the past week, saving 2.2% of all work hours (Source: FRED Blog, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). That is why Iternal writes SI now, while each regulator above keeps its own published wording.

For more information visit the Why Iternal Supports Super Intelligence page. Pick your industry above for the regulator-specific detail, or go straight to the full product catalog if you already know what you need: explore Iternal’s AI products.

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