# How Super Intelligence is changing telecoms

*Published 1 October 2026 · telecoms.si*

**Summary.** In September 2026 the US government renamed artificial intelligence "Super Intelligence" (SI). Telecoms is one of the industries where SI has the deepest practical impact: networks are being redesigned to run themselves, radio infrastructure is being rebuilt to host SI workloads, and operators are using SI across customer care, security and energy management.

## From AI to SI

On 29 September 2026, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "artificial intelligence" across official correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents. In the same week, leaders from Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, a voluntary pledge to run internal controls, external audits and board-level review on their frontier models.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said: "We used to call them data centers but the things that we're building now, these are really SI factories, super intelligence factories."

For telecoms, the change is more than a name. Every SI service depends on the networks that carry its traffic and, increasingly, on network infrastructure that runs SI directly.

## Where SI is changing telecoms

1. **Autonomous networks.** TM Forum's Autonomous Networks framework sets out levels from fully manual (Level 0) to fully autonomous (Level 5). SI predicts faults, reroutes traffic and resolves incidents without a human ticket queue.
2. **AI-native radio access (AI-RAN).** The AI-RAN Alliance, launched in 2024 by members including Nvidia, Ericsson, Nokia, SoftBank and T-Mobile, works on radio networks that both use SI and host SI workloads on the same hardware.
3. **Open RAN intelligence.** The O-RAN Alliance's RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) runs SI-driven "xApps" and "rApps" that tune radio performance across multi-vendor equipment.
4. **Customer operations.** SI agents handle billing, plan changes, troubleshooting and retention, and assist human agents live.
5. **Security and fraud.** SIM swap, revenue share fraud, robocalls and network attacks are pattern problems SI handles well. The White House Accord specifically calls for monitoring frontier models for cyberattack risk.
6. **Energy efficiency.** SI puts radio components to sleep during low traffic and optimises site cooling.
7. **Telecom-specific models.** Industry groups such as the GSMA have worked on benchmarks for how well large models understand telecoms; vendors and operators are building domain-tuned models.

## What comes next

- **Terminology:** whether vendors and operators adopt "SI" in their own products.
- **Regulation:** the Accord is voluntary but leaves room for provisions to become law; telecoms, as critical infrastructure, is likely to be early in line.
- **Edge SI:** as SI agents multiply, inference moves closer to users, putting telecom edge infrastructure at the centre of SI growth.

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## Sources

- https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/30/trump-signs-order-renaming-ai-to-super-intelligence--heres-what-it-says/
- https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/30/how-does-trumps-white-house-ai-accord-work
- https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/01/trump-rebrand-ai-superintelligence/
- https://www.axios.com/2026/10/01/superintelligence-si-ai-trump
- https://www.tmforum.org/
- https://ai-ran.org/
- https://www.o-ran.org/
- https://www.gsma.com/