I think when it comes to making machines smarter than humans, Executive Order 14434 represents an admirable effort by this administration to meet the machines halfway.

I wish we could talk more about Natural Stupidity, which is the flip side of Artificial Intelligence, the seeming desire of humans to show that they are dumber than a machine.

Less meeting them halfway and more blasting past them at Mach 10 and continuing to accelerate.

> Beginning with the October 19, 2026 collection, instrument wording was updated due to Executive Order 14434.

But hang on, surely “(formerly referred to as Artificial Intelligence or AI)” fails the provision in §1¶3 “not acknowledge the usage of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘AI’ in any applicable setting” (admittedly not reiterated in §2 or §3)?

Its showing up in all the NIST stuff now too. Gave me quite mid-meeting snort when I saw that.

Or we could just talk a lot about a return to "norms" without reforming anything.

It is sad knowing we are spending all this money on monuments that will just be spent all over again when we remove them in 2 years. And yes, these word/name changes are meant to be a monument, a tangible mark on history.

No, we are using that chart as inspiration for a new October 2026 chart with the latest numbers from the same underlying data source as the 2025 one:

https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-11-01/5821A414-...

Well now you're just quoting Space Force doctrine.

(Esp. the second part.)

Off-topic, but why does your username have an incel slur (e.g., "foid") in it?

Reviewing post history, it's very clearly tongue-in-cheek. The user probably spends time in spaces that shit on incels and the like and is adopting the name ironically.

Would you prefer if it was NoidMonsense?

It’s a clear spoonerism.