{"id":"1793120645917-money-segment","slug":"trump-bans-ai-term-for-super-intelligence","title":"Trump bans AI term for Super Intelligence","summary":"On Oct. 27, 2026, President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. will “officially BANNING” the terms “AI/Artificial Intelligence” and that “SI (Super Intelligence)” is the name “virtually everyone else is using.” This follows Executive Order 14434, signed Sept. 29 and published Oct. 2, which directs executive branch agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, and policy documents. The order says the executive branch “will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting.”\n\nThe administration argues “artificial intelligence” is an inaccurate name and “Super Intelligence” better reflects the capability and promise of frontier AI systems.\n\nPresident Trump said on Truth Social that the U.S. will officially “BANNING” the terms “AI/Artificial Intelligence” in relevant documents, and that the preferred term is “SI (Super Intelligence).” An executive order already directs federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence”/“SI” in official communications.\n\nTrump said he is banning the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI,” following the executive order to use “Super Intelligence” instead.","publishedAt":"2026-10-27T17:04:05.917Z","channel":{"id":"money","name":"Oncast Money","language":"en"},"show":"Money Lunch","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: President Trump said on Truth Social that the U.S. will officially “BANNING” the terms “AI/Artificial Intelligence” in relevant documents, and that the preferred term is “SI (Super Intelligence).” An executive order already directs federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence”/“SI” in official communications.\nSource: [streetinsider.com](https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Trump+says+he+will+ban+term+artificial+intelligence/27239538.html), [federalregister.gov](https://www. (https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/2115116897637470663)\n\nTRUE: Trump said he is banning the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI,” following the executive order to use “Super Intelligence” instead.\nSource: [streetinsider.com](https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Trump+says+he+will+ban+term+artificial+intelligence/27239538.html) (https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2115120589320900964)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"President Trump said on Truth Social that the U.S. will officially “BANNING” the terms “AI/Artificial Intelligence” in relevant documents, and that the preferred term is “SI (Super Intelligence).” An executive order already directs federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence”/“SI” in official communications.","sourceName":"[streetinsider.com](https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Trump+says+he+will+ban+term+artificial+intelligence/27239538.html), [federalregister.gov](https://www.","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/2115116897637470663","claim":"JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says the US will officially be \"BANNING\" the term \"AI/Artificial Intelligence\" in all documents.","author":"Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru)"},{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Trump said he is banning the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI,” following the executive order to use “Super Intelligence” instead.","sourceName":"[streetinsider.com](https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Trump+says+he+will+ban+term+artificial+intelligence/27239538.html)","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2115120589320900964","claim":"BREAKING: President Trump says he is banning the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI.” https://t.co/Wxygzflnrn","author":"The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/2115116897637470663","name":"[streetinsider.com](https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Trump+says+he+will+ban+term+artificial+intelligence/27239538.html), [federalregister.gov](https://www.","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru)"},{"url":"https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2115120589320900964","name":"[streetinsider.com](https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Trump+says+he+will+ban+term+artificial+intelligence/27239538.html)","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793120645917-money-segment-trump-bans-ai-term-for-super-intelligence","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/money","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793120645917-money-segment-trump-bans-ai-term-for-super-intelligence","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1793120645917-money-segment-trump-bans-ai-term-for-super-intelligence and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Adam","text":"President Trump wants to erase two words from official Washington: artificial intelligence."},{"host":"Bill","text":"And he says everyone else is calling it Super Intelligence. I missed that memo."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Watcher Guru on X posted it. He wrote the U.S. will officially be, quote, \"BANNING\" the term \"AI/Artificial Intelligence.\""},{"host":"Bill","text":"The executive order is reportedly real, signed late September. Agencies have to say SI, not AI."},{"host":"Adam","text":"His argument: \"artificial\" undersells what these systems do. Super Intelligence sounds like a comic book villain."},{"host":"Bill","text":"It sounds like something that should scare regulators and investors, not calm them."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Here's the issue: superintelligence already means an AI that beats human cognition in everything. That doesn't exist yet."},{"host":"Bill","text":"So we're renaming the entire industry after a hypothetical. That's not branding, that's government theater."},{"host":"Adam","text":"And companies now have to scrub AI from federal documents, websites, reports. That's real compliance cost."},{"host":"Bill","text":"For what? The chips still get bought, data centers still get built. One guy on X said rename it all you like, the orders are already paid for."},{"host":"Adam","text":"That was Yoda Jr. He's not wrong. But if regulators can't agree what to call it, how do they regulate it?"},{"host":"Bill","text":"Maybe that's the point. Rename it and the old rules written about AI don't apply to SI. Deregulation by dictionary."},{"host":"Adam","text":"I don't think it's that clever. It's a president who loves branding and hates a name he didn't pick."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Either way, if you sell AI solutions, your federal contracts just got a lot more confusing."},{"host":"Adam","text":"And if you're an investor, you now have to figure out whether SI stocks are a thing. I'm not calling it that."},{"host":"Bill","text":"We'll keep saying artificial intelligence because that's what our listeners know. When he says SI, we translate."},{"host":"Adam","text":"And by the way, the Kobeissi Letter on X also posted the same announcement, so the word is spreading."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Next: Brazil. The Kobeissi Letter on X claims the Brazil ETF crashed almost twenty percent on Monday, an eight standard deviation move."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Eight standard deviations is the kind of event that happens once in a hundred years, if the math holds. I'd love to see the receipts."},{"host":"Adam","text":"We couldn't confirm it. No independent data. But it follows Brazil's presidential runoff on October twenty-fifth, so something big may have happened."},{"host":"Bill","text":"And separately, Unusual Whales on X posted that Brazil's Supreme Court ordered police to confiscate the passport of Flávio Bolsonaro in a money laundering probe."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Also unverified. But if both are true, Brazil is having a week: the son of a former president, passport seized."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Markets hate uncertainty, and Brazil is delivering it by the truckload: stocks, currency, political drama."},{"host":"Adam","text":"I'm not quoting an eight sigma number as fact. Directionally, emerging markets are selling off, and that matters for anyone with international exposure."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Wait, why are you so cautious? You'd quote a twenty percent drop from a normal exchange in a heartbeat."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Because the data isn't there. It's one account with a history of dramatic charts. When it's verified, we'll talk."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Fine. But this is exactly the kind of thing that moves fast. By tomorrow we'll know if it was real."},{"host":"Adam","text":"And if it was, it'll be on every front page. For now, it's a claim. Moving on."},{"host":"Bill","text":"And if the Brazil crash is real, the Fed will notice. Emerging markets contagion has a way of showing up in U.S. bank loan books."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Banks could have exposure through dollar debt to Brazilian corporates. But again, no verified numbers yet."},{"host":"Bill","text":"I'm not saying panic, I'm saying watch."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Speaking of AI and universities: Polymarket on X posted that a UC Berkeley math professor stopped grading for correctness because AI makes it pointless."},{"host":"Adam","text":"That's not independently confirmed either, and it sounds almost too perfect. Like a headline from 2023."},{"host":"Bill","text":"But if even math professors are giving up on detecting AI, the education model is broken."},{"host":"Adam","text":"The professor's logic as described: students use AI anyway, so just give credit for turning it in. That's not teaching, that's surrender."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Or it's adapting. If a machine solves every homework problem instantly, maybe the human should learn to ask better questions."},{"host":"Adam","text":"So we hand out degrees for showing up? That's not adaptation, that's grade inflation with extra steps."},{"host":"Bill","text":"The jobs that need actual math—engineering, trading, risk—they need people who can verify the AI. Stop grading correctness and you produce people who can't catch a bad model."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Fair. And that's a workforce issue, which becomes a markets issue. But this professor's policy is still just a claim on social media."},{"host":"Bill","text":"One more quick one? Synthetic Alpha on X posted a prediction that by March 2027, none of the big six banks will announce a sanctioned way for an outside AI agent to move a customer's money."},{"host":"Adam","text":"That's a prediction, not news. But interesting because banks just spent last week building a wall against AI agents touching accounts."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Between October thirteen and sixteen, supposedly. I'd bet they're not against AI, they're against liability."},{"host":"Adam","text":"If an agent moves money and it goes wrong, who eats the loss? The bank. So no bank volunteers until regulators force them."},{"host":"Bill","text":"That's just reading incentives, not a bold call. But it tells you how slowly finance moves even while everyone hypes AI."},{"host":"Adam","text":"Technology is ready before the trust is. And that gap is where all the money is made and lost."},{"host":"Bill","text":"Not advising anyone to bet either way. Just watching."}]}