Artificial intelligence and superintelligence can both describe the same system—but they do not mean the same thing.

Technically, AI is the broad category. Superintelligent describes a much higher capability level. Google DeepMind’s 2026 AGI-to-ASI report describes artificial superintelligence, or ASI, as intelligence beyond human-level AGI and potentially beyond large organizations of human experts. Put simply: all ASI would be AI, but not all AI is ASI.

The terminology is more complicated in the United States. Executive Order 14434 directs federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI.” For now, the order explicitly maps that federal term back to the existing statutory definition of AI.

That means “Super Intelligence” can currently be correct as federal policy language even when a system would not qualify as technical ASI. BitcoinVersus.Tech previously covered the White House terminology order, SpaceXAI’s planned SpaceXSI rename and earlier debate about AGI’s broader economic impact.

Bottom line: “Artificial intelligence” identifies the field. “Superintelligent AI” describes an AI capability level. “Artificial superintelligence” is the more precise technical term for ASI.