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    "notice": "Coverage is limited, so a missing record does not mean nothing changed. General information, not legal advice. Check the official source. Please cite the record's url.",
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        "id": 38,
        "url": "https://amendsignal.com/changes/president-directs-federal-agencies-to-say-super-intelligence-in-place-of-artificial-intelligence/",
        "title": "President directs federal agencies to say Super Intelligence in place of artificial intelligence",
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        "status": "issued",
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        "status_statement": "As of our last check on November 3, 2026, this has been signed by the President. It may need agency action before it affects employers.",
        "significance": "No new requirements",
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                "value": "91 FR 63129"
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            "what_changed": "Executive Order 14434, signed September 29, 2026, directs federal agencies to use Super Intelligence (SI) in place of artificial intelligence (AI) in their correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and policy documents. For now, the new terms mean the same technologies as the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence.",
            "whos_affected": "The order directs federal executive branch agencies, not employers. It creates no duties for private, state or local employers.",
            "what_to_do": "This order creates no new duties for employers. If your team tracks federal materials on AI tools at work, consider adding Super Intelligence and SI to the terms you search for."
        },
        "summary": "The President signed an executive order directing federal executive branch agencies to use the terms Super Intelligence (SI) in place of artificial intelligence (AI) in official correspondence, websites, reports and other non-statutory documents. The order keeps the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence for now and creates no obligations for employers.",
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                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "text": "The order makes it the administration's policy that the executive branch uses the terms Super Intelligence and SI in place of Artificial Intelligence and AI, to the maximum extent permitted by law.",
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                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 1. Purpose",
                        "excerpt": "the executive branch shall use the terms ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' in place of ``Artificial Intelligence'' and ``AI''"
                    }
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            {
                "kind": "fact",
                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "text": "Federal agencies are directed to use the new terms in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory documents.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall use ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' in place of ``Artificial Intelligence'' and ``AI'' in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
                    }
                ]
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            {
                "kind": "fact",
                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "text": "The order does not require changes to previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants or other historical documents.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(b)",
                        "excerpt": "Nothing in this section requires the alteration of previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents."
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "kind": "fact",
                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "text": "For the order's purposes, Super Intelligence and SI mean the technologies covered by the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence in title 15 of the United States Code, until a later Presidential action or an Act of Congress replaces that definition.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(a)",
                        "excerpt": "the terms ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' mean the technologies and systems encompassed by the term ``artificial intelligence'' as defined in section 9401(3) of title 15, United States Code."
                    },
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(a)",
                        "excerpt": "This definition shall govern the implementation of this order unless and until superseded by subsequent Presidential action consistent with applicable law or by an Act of Congress."
                    }
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            {
                "kind": "fact",
                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "text": "Within 60 days of the order, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology is to submit proposed legislative language to the President for a federal definition of Super Intelligence, including whether it should modify, expand or replace the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(b)",
                        "excerpt": "Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST), in consultation with the heads of other agencies as the APST deems appropriate, shall submit to the President proposed legislative language"
                    },
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(b)(i)",
                        "excerpt": "an assessment of whether, and to what extent, the definition of ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' should modify, expand upon, or otherwise supersede the existing statutory definition of ``artificial intelligence''"
                    }
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            {
                "kind": "fact",
                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "text": "The order states that it creates no right or benefit enforceable at law by any party.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 4(c)",
                        "excerpt": "This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party"
                    }
                ]
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            {
                "kind": "fact",
                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "text": "The order directs executive departments and agencies of the federal government.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall use ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' in place of ``Artificial Intelligence'' and ``AI''"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "kind": "inference",
                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "text": "Employers are not addressed by the order and have no duties under it. The order governs only the wording federal agencies use.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
                    }
                ]
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            {
                "kind": "inference",
                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "text": "Employers that follow federal agency materials on artificial intelligence may see new agency documents and web pages use Super Intelligence or SI where they would have said AI.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
                    }
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            {
                "kind": "inference",
                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "text": "The rename on its own does not change which technologies are covered, because the new terms take the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(a)",
                        "excerpt": "the terms ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' mean the technologies and systems encompassed by the term ``artificial intelligence'' as defined in section 9401(3) of title 15, United States Code."
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "kind": "inference",
                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "text": "Existing federal regulations, contracts and grants that use artificial intelligence or AI are not required to be reworded, so their terms stay as written.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(b)",
                        "excerpt": "Nothing in this section requires the alteration of previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents."
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "kind": "inference",
                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "text": "The definition could change later: the order asks for proposed legislation that may expand or replace the statutory definition, which would take a later Presidential action or an Act of Congress.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(a)",
                        "excerpt": "unless and until superseded by subsequent Presidential action consistent with applicable law or by an Act of Congress."
                    },
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(b)(i)",
                        "excerpt": "should modify, expand upon, or otherwise supersede the existing statutory definition of ``artificial intelligence''"
                    }
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        "recommended_actions": [
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                "kind": "recommendation",
                "kind_label": "Our suggestion",
                "text": "Consider adding Super Intelligence and SI to the search terms and alerts you use to track federal agency materials on artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, since new agency documents are to use those terms.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall use ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' in place of ``Artificial Intelligence'' and ``AI'' in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "kind": "recommendation",
                "kind_label": "Our suggestion",
                "text": "Consider leaving the AI wording in your internal policies and HR technology documentation as it is for now: the order applies to executive branch documents and keeps the existing statutory definition.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(a)",
                        "excerpt": "the terms ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' mean the technologies and systems encompassed by the term ``artificial intelligence'' as defined in section 9401(3) of title 15, United States Code."
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "kind": "recommendation",
                "kind_label": "Our suggestion",
                "text": "Consider watching for any later Presidential action or legislation that adopts a new definition of Super Intelligence, since it could change which technologies federal rules on AI cover.",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 3(b)",
                        "excerpt": "Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST), in consultation with the heads of other agencies as the APST deems appropriate, shall submit to the President proposed legislative language"
                    }
                ]
            }
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            "state": "assessed",
            "text": "There is no employer obligation yet. The order directs federal agencies to change the terms they use and asks the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology for proposed legislation on a definition. Watch for any later Presidential action or Act of Congress that changes the definition of artificial intelligence."
        },
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                "criterion": "where",
                "label": "Where",
                "answer": "United States, nationwide",
                "kind": "fact",
                "kind_label": "From the source",
                "evidence": []
            },
            {
                "criterion": "employer_type",
                "label": "Employers",
                "answer": "The order reaches no employers directly; it directs federal executive branch agencies.",
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                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall use ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' in place of ``Artificial Intelligence'' and ``AI''"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "criterion": "size",
                "label": "Size",
                "answer": "The order sets no size threshold, because it does not apply to employers of any size.",
                "kind": "inference",
                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
                    }
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            },
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                "criterion": "industries",
                "label": "Industries",
                "answer": "No industry is directly covered; the order changes only the terms federal agencies use.",
                "kind": "inference",
                "kind_label": "Our analysis",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
                    }
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                "criterion": "functions",
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                "answer": "Legal, compliance and HR technology teams that track federal materials on AI tools may notice the new terms.",
                "kind": "inference",
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                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
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                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall use ``Super Intelligence'' and ``SI'' in place of ``Artificial Intelligence'' and ``AI''"
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                "criterion": "action",
                "label": "Action",
                "answer": "No action required; consider updating the search terms you use to follow federal AI materials.",
                "kind": "recommendation",
                "kind_label": "Our suggestion",
                "evidence": [
                    {
                        "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
                        "locator": "Sec. 2(a)",
                        "excerpt": "official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents within the executive branch."
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            {
                "question": "Will federal agencies reword guidance and web pages they already published about artificial intelligence, or use the new terms only in new documents?",
                "context": "Section 2(a) covers websites and policy documents, while section 2(b) says previously issued regulations and other historical documents need not be changed, without saying where existing guidance falls."
            },
            {
                "question": "Will the proposed legislative definition of Super Intelligence be made public, and would it change which technologies federal workplace rules on artificial intelligence cover?",
                "context": "The order directs that the proposal be submitted to the President within 60 days but does not say whether or when it will be published or adopted."
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                "label": "Issued",
                "occurred_on": "2026-10-02",
                "summary": "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence",
                "source": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence"
            }
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            {
                "label": "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence, 91 FR 63129 (October 2, 2026)",
                "publisher": "Federal Register",
                "role": "primary",
                "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/02/2026-20321/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence",
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