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US Federal AI Policy

The collection of US federal laws, regulations, and executive orders governing artificial intelligence, spanning Congress, agencies, and the White House.

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Federal agencies must now write 'SI' instead of 'AI'

Trump's September 29 executive order tells federal agencies to write "SI" instead of "AI" in their official documents and on their websites. The order does not bind private firms, but vendors that sell to agencies will meet "SI" throughout the documents they read.

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Reality

Evidence62
Adoption22
Hype gap+55
Incentives68
Confidence60
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Trump orders federal agencies to write "Super Intelligence" in place of AI

Donald Trump signed an order on Sept. 29 telling executive agencies to write "Super Intelligence" and "SI" for AI in new documents. Contracts and rules already issued keep their wording, and any change to what the term legally covers would come from a definition the White House science adviser has 60 days to propose.

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Reality

Evidence78
Adoption15
Hype gap+35
Incentives55
Confidence72
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Trump's reported AI tsar pick would hand AI policy to the nation's intelligence chief

President Trump is expected to name intelligence director Jay Clayton as AI tsar, six months after David Sacks left, with Clayton keeping his spy-agency job. The record points to pressure on firms that limit military use of their models, with Anthropic first in line, and little sign of a sector-wide crackdown.

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12 publishers
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Builder 24%
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Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives40
Confidence60
productConfirmed7 publishers

Trump's order tells federal agencies to call AI 'super intelligence'

President Trump's Sept. 29 executive order tells federal agencies to say "super intelligence" in public statements, on websites and in reports. The order speaks only to agencies, so companies selling to them decide for themselves whether their proposals and product pages follow.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
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Builder 24%
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Operator 40%
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Investor 36%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption30
Hype gap+50
Incentives
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Confidence65
investConfirmed18 publishers

Musk will rename SpaceX's AI unit by one letter to match Trump's 'super intelligence'

Elon Musk says SpaceX will rename its AI unit from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI to match Trump's preferred term, 'super intelligence'. The pledge came without a date or any disclosed contract or revenue showing the merged SpaceX-xAI business moving closer to Washington.

Perspective Coverage

20 publishers
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Builder 31%
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Investor 38%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption20
Hype gap+35
Incentives65
Confidence78
scienceOne report1 publisher

Trump's AI task force under the DNI includes the FTC chair whose agency is probing AI agents

Executive Order 14434 makes 'Super Intelligence' the federal term for AI, with a task force under DNI Jay Clayton reporting to President Trump. The one enforcement action on record is an FTC probe of AI agents, opened the day after the order was signed.

Publishers:forkast.news

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
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Hype gap+35
Incentives
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Confidence25
buildConfirmed5 publishers

White House super intelligence accord leaves enforcement to the six firms that signed it

Six AI companies signed a two-page White House accord on 29 September that pledges audits and board review but sets no penalty for breaking it. A close reading of the text finds it is the nearest thing the US has to national AI safety policy, two months after Europe switched its rules on.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Evidence72
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence70
securityConfirmed2 publishers

Trump orders federal agencies to call AI 'Super Intelligence' in official documents

President Trump ordered federal agencies to write 'Super Intelligence' in place of 'AI' in correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents. The order sets no new duty for model builders; what could change their scope is a proposed statutory definition due to the President within 60 days.

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
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Hype gap+55
Incentives70
Confidence70
productOne report1 publisher

NYT/Siena finds 47 percent of Republicans oppose building data centres for AI

The same survey puts overall opposition at 61 percent among 1,503 likely voters, and New York's pause on large data-centre permits has not moved, so the people siting capacity are negotiating local politics in both parties.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
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Hype gap+10
Incentives70
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

OpenAI endorses the FRONTIER Act provision that puts licensed verifiers inside frontier labs

The FRONTIER Act would license independent verifiers to inspect the largest frontier labs, and OpenAI has endorsed that provision days after Sam Altman promised the same access voluntarily. The bill's heaviest duties start far above startup scale.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption
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Hype gap+28
Incentives72
Confidence44
buildOne report1 publisher

OpenAI urges Congress to set mandatory national AI safety rules, including testing and incident-reporting standards

OpenAI wants testing standards, independent assessments, cybersecurity protections and incident reporting for the most advanced systems, but nothing in the ask says which systems those are. The only piece already signed is Californian.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption24
Hype gap+32
Incentives78
Confidence48