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Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test
According to the excerpt, MIT Technology Review's newsletter The Algorithm reports that at the end of September President Trump signed an executive order whose one directive tells agencies to call what they had labelled artificial intelligence "Super Intelligence", and looks at who is complying.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
For lawmakers
MIT Technology Review reports a US executive order that orders agencies to rename AI as "Super Intelligence", showing how naming itself has become a lever of federal AI policy.
The question it raises
MIT Technology Review's account of the renaming order raises the question of whether changing what a technology is called changes how it is governed.
The record
- Questions
- Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading?
- People
- James O'Donnell (Wrote it) · Donald Trump (About them, President)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of November 4, 2026, via
mit-technology-review-ai(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- MIT Technology Review, “Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test”, November 3, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/mit-technology-review-2026-11-03-super-intelligence-loyalty-test
Our notesLight lane: excerpt cuts off; who is "falling in line" is not visible. The story id was chosen by theme and should be confirmed.