Plain-English explainers on SI, the name the US government adopted for artificial intelligence in September 2026, and on the ideas around it: what changed with the renaming, what did not, and the everyday concepts that come with generative SI, such as hallucinations and deepfakes. We stick to what the sources say, separate facts from commentary, and update articles when the situation moves. For the definition itself, the history of the word and how SI differs from superintelligence, read our reference guide What is SI?
Deepfakes are SI (AI) made or altered images, videos and voices that pass for real recordings. Here is what they are, the cases that made the news, how to spot one and what detectors can and cannot catch.
Read the articleWhy SI (AI) chatbots state invented facts with total confidence, what it has cost lawyers and an airline, and why an SI detector cannot tell you whether a text is true.
Read the articleOn 22 September 2026 the US government started calling AI "super intelligence", or SI. Here is what that changes in practice, and the long list of things it leaves untouched.
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