The One Fact Every Theme Below Shares
Signed September 29, 2026, Executive Order 14434 tells federal departments and agencies — not states, not private companies — to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “AI” in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory documents, “to the maximum extent permitted by law” (Source: the Federal Register). Because several of those agencies are themselves regulators — the FDA, HHS, GSA’s FedRAMP program, and DoD’s CMMC program among them — the swap reaches their future guidance too, though Section 2(b) carves out anything they already issued: old regulations, contracts, and grants keep their original wording. 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), so the federal name governs federal executive agencies rather than every government. That is why this directory sorts by role and cross-cutting topic rather than by industry: a CISO, a compliance officer, and an enterprise architect each face a narrow governance or process question — a line in a questionnaire, a clause in a policy, a label on an architecture diagram — and none of them is being handed a rewritten rulebook.
The order’s 60-day clock, landing around November 28, 2026, marks when the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology owes the President draft statutory wording for the new term — it is not a completion date for any agency, company, or internal team. A Wiley Rein LLP client alert called the shift “likely to be procedural and administrative rather than substantive” (Source: Wiley Rein LLP), and a Cloud Security Alliance research note reached the same conclusion from the security side: the order “creates no new legal category and does not alter existing regulations, contracts, or grants” (Source: a Cloud Security Alliance research note).
Two findings recur across the cards below. Nothing in the order directs NIST to reissue its AI Risk Management Framework under an “SI” name, and the same CSA note recommends a governance program “not create a separate risk tier called ‘SI’” (CSA). And where an institution’s name has changed, its standard often hasn’t: NIST’s center now reads “Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI)” and already says “the security of SI systems,” while its own Research Blog and News sections underneath still say “AI” (Source: nist.gov).
Want the clause-by-clause version instead of the summary above? Read Executive Order 14434, explained for businesses or look up any term in the Super Intelligence (SI) glossary.