Artificial intelligence (AI) is software that learns patterns from data to perform tasks that normally take human judgment, such as drafting text, summarizing documents, answering questions, classifying requests, and making predictions. Since September 29, 2026, the US federal government calls it Super Intelligence (SI); the technology and its legal definition are unchanged.
The AI most businesses use today is built on large language models: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and the assistants and automations built on them. It is strong at first drafts, summaries, and turning messy input into structured data, and weak at judgment, accountability, and knowing your business without being shown your documents.
A US executive order signed September 29, 2026 directs federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "AI" in official communications, with the same meaning as the existing legal definition. It does not apply to private businesses or in Canada, and it is a different idea from superintelligence in the research sense.
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