Donald Trump has formally directed his administration that from this point on, “Artificial Intelligence” is officially to be called “Super Intelligence.” His reasoning, published on the White House website, and titled “President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates The Era of Super Intelligence” explains, “The name Super Intelligence conveys the true capabilities of the technologies being developed today.”
It goes on to justify the change, arguing, “Using the name Super Intelligence will ensure departments and agencies remain focused on expanding the capabilities and applications of these technologies to empower Americans, strengthen our economy, and improve the lives of the American people.”
Trump has now signed the executive order making this a reality, along with a “White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” signed by Trump, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, XAI’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. This promises that the tech will be developed and used responsibly, and agrees to external audits to ensure these Super Intelligences will do as they’re told.
“President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates The Era of Super Intelligence”
But, in an ironic twist for a document about Super Intelligence, there’s a fairly glaring typo that you’d think the President of the United States would have spotted before providing his John Hancock. As many online quickly pointed out, Trump has signed as the “President of the Unites States.” Oops.
As a commenter pointed out, “six tech billionaires signed this and not one has spell check.” One just said, “As an American, I’m embarrassed” and another wonders whether it’s possible that the typo “invalidates the whole thing?“
Fortunately, clerical mistakes and typos do not invalidate a document so long as the intent is clear from the rest of the text. No reasonable person would conclude that the “Unites States” is intended to be anything other than “United States”, so the accord stands.
This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has made some strange typos. During his first administration, Air Force One was repeatedly referred to as “Air Force Once” on his official schedule, then-British Prime Minister Theresa May was referred to as “Teresa May,” and a document about separating migrant children from their families repeatedly spelled “separated” as “seperated.”
But perhaps we should give the administration some grace on this point. After all, they are turning out a huge number of documents every day, and nobody can be expected to proofread them all. We should also remember that even the most talented and careful typists can make the occasional eror from tim to tmie.
Published: Sep 30, 2026 06:05 am