Who is falling in line for the "Super Intelligence" loyalty test
From the AI digest for Nov 4, 2026
What happened: President Trump signed an executive order at the end of September containing a single directive: government agencies are to stop calling the technology "artificial intelligence" and rebrand it "Super Intelligence." A new MIT Technology Review read catalogues who has fallen in line since, framing adoption of the new name as a loyalty test across government and industry.
What's genuinely new: The piece builds the named roll-call of agencies and figures that have adopted the rebrand since the September 29 order — moving the storyline from the announcement (the order itself, the White House accord) to compliance tracking inside government. It also marks the first sustained press treatment of the directive's one-line scope: the entire order was the renaming.
Watch: Whether the label moves beyond the agencies named into official artifacts — policy documents, filings, press habits — and whether any agency publicly declines the renaming.
Links: MIT Technology Review · Nov 2, 11:18 PM ET