How we count

Twice a day, at 11:15 and 23:15 UTC, a script pulls fresh counts from public sources, rebuilds the index and republishes the site. No number on this site is estimated by hand except the reality check, which is updated from cited sources and dated.

Where the evidence comes from

A company’s status rests only on what the company itself publishes or files. News coverage helps us find a change, but it never counts as one: when a story says a company switched, we go to the company’s own post or filing.

• SEC filings. Every filing by every US-listed company, through EDGAR full-text search: earnings releases, 8-Ks, quarterly and annual reports. These are legal statements, which makes them the hardest evidence to fake or quietly undo.
• Official newsrooms and blogs. Each company’s own feeds. We read the full text of every post published since the order.
• Official X accounts. Corporate and executive accounts, including renames like @SpaceXSI.
• Hand-checked statements. Renamed products, teams and pages, each with a dated link to the company’s own words.

Who counts as the inner circle

The eight companies that build and finance the leading AI systems: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon and SpaceXSI (formerly xAI). The broader tech sector covers about thirty more, from chipmakers to software companies. The whole-market number covers every SEC filer.

Company status

• Switched: the company renamed a product, team or account to SI, or its own channels say “super intelligence” at least as often as they say AI.
• Partly: the new term shows up in its own channels some of the time.
• Still says AI: its posts and filings since the order say AI and never the new term.
• Rejected it: it has publicly rejected or mocked the rename.
• Silent: nothing published since the order that uses either term.

For company channels, the abbreviation “AI” counts as saying AI, because companies rarely spell it out. “SI” on its own does not count as the new term: it also means the metric system, systems integrators and Sports Illustrated. Only the phrase “super intelligence” does. The one-word “superintelligence” doesn’t count either, since Meta and others used it long before the order.

The transition meters

A count of full switches hides how far the term has spread inside companies that haven’t switched. So the overview scores each company by the strongest use of the term we’ve found in its own words, and the meter for each group is the average:

A score measures how official the strongest use is. One press release scores 60 even if every other post says AI. The SEC and federal meters are simpler: the share of documents that use the new term, out of those that name the technology.

What counts as “saying SI”

The order tells agencies to use “super intelligence,” two words. For government documents, forums and readers, a document, post or article counts as saying SI if it contains “super intelligence” (or “super-intelligence”). It counts as saying AI if it contains “artificial intelligence” and not the new term. Documents that use both, like the order itself, count as SI.

We don’t count the bare abbreviations “AI” and “SI.” “SI” also means the metric system, Sports Illustrated and a dozen other things, so counting it would be noise.

The groups

Federal documents are counted from the order’s signing on September 29. Agencies publish a few documents a day that mention AI, so a 7-day window would be too thin to read. Legislative-branch publishers such as the Library of Congress are left out, because the order covers the executive branch.

Status labels

• Switched: half or more of mentions use the new term.
• Mixed: between 10 and 50 percent.
• Still says AI: under 10 percent.
• Too few to call: fewer than 5 mentions in the window.

Spikes

Each day’s count of the new term is compared with its average over the 7 days before. At 1.3 times that normal it’s elevated, and at 1.75 times it’s a spike. We use the last full day in UTC, so a quiet morning never looks like a collapse.

What the numbers can’t tell you

• Saying a term isn’t endorsing it. A Hacker News comment mocking “super intelligence” still counts as using it. The share measures usage, not agreement.
• “Super intelligence” was in use before the order. People have discussed superintelligence for decades, so Hacker News and Wikipedia were never at zero. The change column compares each group with its own recent past.
• The Federal Register only shows what agencies publish there. Agency websites and public statements are checked by hand on the Government page, with a dated source for each, so they move only when we recheck them. Agency press releases are not counted yet.

The reality check

Renaming the technology doesn’t change what it can do. The reality check collects the strongest public measures, including ARC Prize, METR, Epoch AI and published forecasts. Each one carries its source and date. We don’t combine them into one score, because no test can yet measure whether AI is far beyond the best people in almost every field, which is what superintelligence originally meant.

Open data

Everything on this site is free to reuse with credit to AI or SI. The files update with every recount:

• /data/companies.json: every company, its status, evidence level, counts and sources, plus the change log
• /data/companies.csv: the same companies as a spreadsheet
• /data/index.json: the full dataset behind every number on the page
• /api/data/wires.json: the press-release wire tally, every two hours

Who runs this, and who pays for it

AI or SI doesn’t sell domains, tokens or anything else that gains value if the new term catches on. The site is paid for by sponsors, and every sponsor line is labeled. Sponsors never affect a company’s status or any number on the page.

Corrections

Spot something wrong? Email hello@aiorsi.org. Corrections are logged in the daily brief.

Data last refreshed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:56:47 GMT. Back to the index