Instrument and legal status
Jurisdiction: United States
Issuer: White House
Publication / adoption date: 2026-09-29
Status: Executive order — executive-branch direction within lawful authority
Effective / applicability date: 2026-09-29
Reviewed: 2026-10-03
FACT — official development
To the maximum extent permitted by law, departments and agencies must use “Super Intelligence” / “SI” in specified non-statutory executive-branch materials. Previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants and historical documents need not be altered. For this order SI incorporates the existing AI definition in 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3); Congress has not changed that statutory definition. This is not a new horizontal enterprise AI statute.
INTERPRETATION — governance relationship
This development should be read within the existing United States governance architecture. Its legal force is executive order — executive-branch direction within lawful authority; the Observatory does not infer broader obligations from its title.
IMPLICATION — enterprise relevance
Review executive-branch terminology in new federal documents without treating it as a generally binding private-sector AI regime.