Executive Order 14434 — executive-branch AI terminology
The September 29, 2026 order directs agencies, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to use “Super Intelligence” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” in certain non-statutory executive documents and requests a legislative-definition proposal.
Event date2026-09-29
Recorded actionExecutive Order 14434 signed: executive terminology direction and proposed statutory-definition follow-up
Status at source snapshotexecutive order signed
InstitutionExecutive Office of the President
Primary record and procedure
Original White House Executive Order 14434 Sections 2(a)-(b) and 3(a)-(b). No attribution is made to a senator merely named in companion AI reporting.
Limits and alternative interpretations
- The non-statutory terminology direction does not rewrite existing acts of Congress, prior regulations, contracts or prior presidential actions.
- The order calls for proposed legislative language; a proposed congressional definition is not an enacted amendment.
- The order uses the existing statutory AI definition for its own purposes and does not prove the existence of any separately defined artificial superintelligence system.
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Primary-source evidence and proof boundaries
- Executive Order 14434 — Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence
Executive Office of the President / White House · Published 2026-09-29 · Reviewed 2026-10-11
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- Exact locator
- Executive Order 14434, September 29, 2026; Sections 1, 2(a)-(b), 3(a)-(b), 4
- What it establishes
- The order directs executive agencies to use Super Intelligence terminology in non-statutory documents to the maximum extent permitted by law and requests proposed legislative language within 60 days.
- Does not establish
- It does not amend Congress-enacted statutory definitions, impose a criminal prohibition on AI deployment, or establish a scientific threshold for machine superintelligence.