Which Federal Agencies Have Switched From AI to SI?

Executive Order 14434, signed on September 29, 2026, told federal executive agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI,” “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” The order set the policy. How it reaches the page depends on each agency, and in the four weeks since, departments have done that in different ways: formal orders to staff, renamed web pages and inventories, new job titles, and in one case a renamed export program.

This page records those acts, agency by agency, with the date and the source for each. It covers the federal label, which since the order means exactly what “AI” meant before. An agency that now calls a chatbot an “SI system” is not claiming it has built Super Intelligence in the research sense. Our guide on Super Intelligence vs AI explains the difference.

The tracker

Formal orders to staff are listed first, then renamed pages, titles and programs. “Basis” is the source we relied on; where an agency’s own document is not public, we name the outlet that saw it.

Agency	What it did	Date	Basis
White House	Executive Order 14434 directs the change across the executive branch	Sep 29, 2026	Executive order
Justice Department	Memo tells all staff to use SI, extended “to court filings when appropriate”	Oct 6, 2026	Reuters
State Department	Department-wide cable requires SI in communications, official titles and program names	Oct 19, 2026	Defense One, Nextgov/FCW
Navy	NAVADMIN message makes SI mandatory “effective immediately,” with a 30-day compliance review	Oct 22, 2026	Navy Times, Stars and Stripes
Marine Corps	Message directs commands to use SI in official correspondence	Oct 23, 2026	Stars and Stripes
EPA	Inventory renamed “SI Use Case Inventory”	Oct 1, 2026	EPA
NIST	Topic page retitled “Super Intelligence”	Oct 5, 2026	NIST
SEC	“Super Intelligence at the SEC” page; Chief SI Officer; SI Task Force	Oct 6, 2026	SEC
White House (OSTP)	Policy site moves to si.gov	Oct 13, 2026	si.gov, NewsBytes
OPM	“SuperIntelligence Governance and Adoption Program” (SI GAP) described	Oct 14, 2026	Nextgov/FCW
HHS	“Super Intelligence (SI) at HHS” page on healthit.gov	Oct 20, 2026	HHS
Commerce	American SI Exports Program at siexports.gov; National SI Center	By Oct 20, 2026	siexports.gov, ITA
Commerce	“Super Intelligence Use Cases Inventory”	Oct 22, 2026	Commerce
Labor Department	“Super Intelligence Use Case Inventory”	Undated	DOL
U.S. International Trade Commission	“Super Intelligence (SI)” page citing the order	Undated	USITC
Interagency	Chief Super Intelligence Officers Council (CSIOC), chaired by the Federal CIO	Undated	Councils.gov

“Undated” means the page carries no date for the change and we found no report of when it happened. Dates for pages are the update date the agency shows, which can be later than the change itself.

The orders, in detail

Four departments and services have issued written instructions to their own staff. They differ in scope.

Justice Department (October 6). Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter told all Justice Department employees to use “super intelligence” and “SI” in public communications, policy documents and other official records, Reuters reported after seeing the memo. It goes further than the executive order in one respect: the directive “shall extend to court filings when appropriate.” The memo is not public, and Reuters did not describe what “appropriate” means.

State Department (October 19). An unclassified cable to the whole department, obtained by Government Executive and Nextgov/FCW, requires “Super Intelligence” or “SI” in letters, emails, public messages, websites, reports, remarks and policy documents, with existing material updated when it is next revised. It also reaches names: “All official titles and the names of Department governance bodies, systems, platforms, inventories, and programs must use SI” in place of AI. It has the most detailed exceptions of any order so far (see below), and it confirms that an earlier cable had renamed the American AI Exports Program, which is covered in our guide to the American SI Exports Program.

Navy (October 22). A NAVADMIN message directs “all Navy echelons, commands, activities, and personnel [to] use ‘Super Intelligence’ and ‘SI’ in place of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘AI,’” according to Navy Times. It applies “effective immediately” to correspondence, flag letters, operation orders, wargame documentation, training material, fleet advisories, websites, strategic assessments and congressional reports. It is the only order so far with a compliance mechanism: senior commanders must review public releases, intranet portals and external presentations within 30 days and report when the review is complete.

Marine Corps (October 23). A Marine Corps message says commands “will use ‘Super Intelligence’ and ‘SI’ in place of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘AI’ in official correspondence,” applying “to the maximum extent permitted by law” and to non-statutory documents, Stars and Stripes reported.

Pages, titles and councils

Most of the change visible to the public is on agency websites. Pages that federal policy requires agencies to publish, such as inventories of how they use AI, now appear under SI names at EPA, Commerce and the Labor Department. NIST says it “is working to update its communications to incorporate the term ‘super intelligence’ as directed,” and Commerce’s inventory page uses nearly the same sentence.

Titles have changed too. The SEC’s page describes a “Chief SI Officer (CSIO)” and an “SI Task Force.” Councils.gov lists a Chief Super Intelligence Officers Council, chaired by the Federal Chief Information Officer, which coordinates agencies’ use of SI. At OPM, chief information officer Adam Starr described a “SuperIntelligence Governance and Adoption Program” that helps other agencies adopt the tools, and OPM Director Scott Kupor has spoken of the Super Intelligence Force, the White House task force on which he is a vice chair, saying “SI is the new word.”

The largest renamed program is at Commerce. The American AI Exports Program, created in 2025 to promote exports of American AI technology, now operates as the American SI Exports Program, and the old aiexports.gov address redirects to siexports.gov (checked by SI Builders on October 24, 2026). Its San Francisco office appears as the National SI Center. We explain the program in What Is the American SI Exports Program?

What the orders leave alone

The executive order applies only “to the maximum extent permitted by law” and does not require changes to existing regulations, contracts or historical documents. The agency orders repeat those limits, and the State cable spells them out most fully. It keeps “AI” in:

• language required by law, existing legal citations, and quotations from statutes, regulations and treaties;
• contracts and grants, pending further guidance;
• previously published documents, cables and archived web pages;
• the published titles of existing presidential actions, programs and organizations, such as America’s AI Action Plan;
• the names of foreign organizations, such as China’s World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization.

The Navy message likewise does not require amending previously published documents or contracts, and leaves statutory citations to “artificial intelligence” in place until Congress amends them.

The result, so far, is uneven. Some examples visible on agency pages as of October 24, 2026:

• HHS’s page is titled “Super Intelligence (SI) at HHS” but still links to the “HHS AI Use Case Inventory 2024,” and its metadata still says the page explains how HHS “uses AI and machine learning.”
• The same HHS page describes machine learning as “a type of super intelligence.” Under the order that sentence means machine learning is a type of AI. Read in the research sense, it would be a claim about capability that no one is making.
• The Labor Department’s inventory page cites an executive order titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Super Intelligence.” The January 2025 order on that subject, Executive Order 14179, is titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” The State cable, by contrast, keeps the published titles of existing presidential actions unchanged.
• The USITC’s SI page keeps the original names of the “AI in Government Act of 2020,” the “Advancing American AI Act” and its own “AI Compliance Plan,” as the exceptions intend.

The White House’s position

The President has publicly pressed for the change. In an October 8 post on Truth Social, he wrote that the White House “considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!” The same day, Gizmodo reported that the graphic at ai.gov appeared to have been changed to read “SI”; the policy site moved to si.gov on October 13, according to NewsBytes. Asked on CNN whether there would be penalties for using “artificial intelligence,” OPM’s Kupor said he did not know and referred the question to the President.

Who has not, yet

• The Department of Defense as a whole. We found no Defense Department-wide terminology memo as of October 24. Stars and Stripes reported on October 23 that the Navy appeared to be the first service to formally address the change; the Army and Air Force did not immediately respond to its question about whether they had issued or planned one, and it was unclear how the Space Force was handling the directive. Army officials have used the term in public; at the AUSA annual meeting, the head of Army Cyber Command said “SI is real”. Usage is not an order, so the Army is not in the tracker.
• Congress, the courts and the states. The executive order does not bind them, and the statutes they apply still say “artificial intelligence.”
• Most of the government’s legal text. Every statute, regulation and existing contract still uses “AI,” and will until Congress or the issuing agency changes it.

What to watch

• The federal definition. The order gives the President’s science adviser 60 days, to about November 28, 2026, to propose legislative language for a federal definition of Super Intelligence. Until Congress or a later presidential action changes it, SI means what AI meant.
• The Navy’s compliance reports, due 30 days after the message.
• State’s guidance on contracts and grants, which its cable left pending.
• Further service and agency orders, especially a Defense Department-wide memo.

How this tracker is maintained

An agency is listed when it has taken a formal, public act: a written instruction to staff, or a change to an official page, title, council or program name. Officials’ use of the term in speeches does not qualify. Each entry has a date and a source; where the agency’s document is not public, we cite the named outlet that reported it. The orders to staff are also logged as events on The Rise of Super Intelligence, alongside the executive order and the NIST and si.gov changes.

Appearing here says nothing about an agency’s technology. The list records a change of vocabulary. Our map of who is building Super Intelligence covers the separate question of who has set out to build it.

This page was first published on 2026-10-24 and is updated as agencies act. Corrections and additions, with sources, to corrections@sibuilders.io.