As the White House advances its SI agenda, the AI Institute argues that training human judgment could create a compounding national advantage. By: Artificial Intelligence Institute America is accelerating the development and application of artificial intelligence. At the White House's October 8 science summit, the Trump administration used the language of super intelligence, SI, to describe the technological capabilities it hopes to advance in scientific discovery and nationa

The missing piece of the national plan costs about 74 cents a student. By: Artificial Intelligence Institute At the White House's October 8 science summit, the Trump administration used the language of super intelligence, SI, to describe the capabilities it hopes to advance in scientific discovery and national competitiveness. That ambition is bold. It deserves an equally ambitious investment in the people who will use those systems. Here is the gap. 78% of students were alre

When the analysis sounds flawless, the most important person may be the one who insists on going three layers deeper. By: Artificial Intelligence Institute Artificial intelligence can now produce an impressive technical demonstration, an elegant business case and a persuasive implementation narrative before a leadership team has finished its first cup of coffee. That is a remarkable achievement. It also makes disciplined evaluation more important than ever. Gartner recently u

The most important breakthrough may not be a machine becoming super intelligent. It may be teaching humans to use AI to amplify their own intelligence. Official White House Super Intelligence luncheon image. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech mission image LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13, 2026 – On Sept. 29, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14434, directing federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official corresponde

The most important breakthrough may not be a machine becoming super intelligent. It may be teaching humans to use AI to amplify their own intelligence. Official White House Super Intelligence luncheon image, directly under the subheadline. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13, 2026 — On Sept. 29, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14434, directing federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official communications. The

As capital accelerates toward artificial intelligence, a credible independent voice can become essential precisely when everyone else sounds certain. By: Artificial Intelligence Institute Artificial intelligence is no longer a speculative line in an investment presentation. It is becoming central to capital allocation, enterprise transformation and institutional strategy. The September 2026 North America Family Office Report from RBC and Campden Wealth found that 85% of surve

From classrooms to workplaces, a more hopeful AI story is emerging when people learn to stay in command, AI expands creativity, curiosity, and human potential. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2026 – The public conversation about artificial intelligence is increasingly dominated by fear. Jobs disappearing. Students cheating. Creativity diluted. Judgment outsourced. People depending on systems they barely understand. Those concerns deserve serious attention. But they are not the whole st

Artificial intelligence can plan, compare, optimize and surface patterns at extraordinary speed. But consequential decisions still require something the system cannot supply on its own: responsibility for whether the answer should be trusted. For most of my career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I have worked on artificial intelligence systems designed for environments where failure is not an abstract concept. Spacecraft operate far from the engineers who built them. Com

Invited to give the White House a full in-person briefing on October 15, the Artificial Intelligence Institute says the missing layer is driver’s education for Super Intelligence: teaching every student to think first, verify and stay in command. No school, whatever its budget, should be left without it, and no district should have to choose against another essential priority to adopt it. Official White House gallery: President Trump hosts a Super Intelligence luncheon, Sept.

From classrooms to workplaces, a more hopeful AI story is emerging when people learn to stay in command, AI expands creativity, curiosity, and human potential. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2026 — A fourth grader can now go from a simple question about space to orbital mechanics in a single afternoon. A young musician can test arrangements that once took a studio. A teacher can explain one hard idea five different ways until one connects. The public conversation about AI is crowded w

As AI Institute leaders travel to Washington for an October 15 White House AI education briefing, the Institute argues that America’s next challenge is not simply access to more powerful intelligence. It is building the human behavior required to stay in command of it. Official White House gallery: President Trump hosts a Super Intelligence luncheon, Sept. 29, 2026. The argument over whether students should use artificial intelligence is already behind us. Students are using

Invited to give the White House a full in-person briefing on what is happening inside America’s classrooms, the AI Institute says the missing layer is driver’s education for Super Intelligence, and no school, whatever its budget, should be left without it. Official White House gallery: President Trump hosts a Super Intelligence luncheon, Sept. 29, 2026. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2026 — The Artificial Intelligence Institute will give the White House a full, in-person briefing on O

As family offices increase exposure to artificial intelligence, the hardest problem may not be finding opportunities. It may be determining which claims deserve to be believed. Artificial intelligence has become one of the most convincing technologies I have ever worked with. That sentence is not necessarily a compliment. Modern AI systems can produce language that is polished, confident, technically sophisticated and completely wrong. NIST uses the term “confabulation” for t

AI Institute leaders Richard Awni, Russell Knight, PhD, and Brian Taylor, PhD, will travel to Washington on October 15 for a White House AI education briefing as the administration accelerates work on AI literacy, critical thinking and the emerging era of Super Intelligence. Official White House gallery: President Trump hosts a Super Intelligence luncheon, Sept. 29, 2026. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11, 2026 — The Artificial Intelligence Institute will travel to Washington on October 1

NASA, NSF, NIST, DOJ, DOE and NIH are already adopting SI language. Across American scienceand technology, the vocabulary is moving toward superintelligence. The Artificial Intelligence Institute believes the missing piece is the human being using it. Official White House Super Intelligence luncheon photograph. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10, 2026 – The signal is becoming impossible to miss. What started as a White House terminology change is now moving through some of America’s most i

As Richard Awni prepares to moderate the AI, space tech and deep-tech discussion at Prestel’s Family Office Forum New York, he argues that major AI decisions increasingly need something familiar to sophisticated capital: an informed, independent second opinion. There is an alignment problem developing inside the AI boom. It is easy to miss because almost everyone in the room may be highly competent. The technology provider knows the system. The implementation firm understands

NASA, NSF, NIST, DOJ, DOE and NIH are already adopting SI language. The Artificial Intelligence Institute says the next question is what happens to the human being using it. Official White House photograph from President Trump’s September 29, 2026 Super Intelligence luncheon. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9, 2026 — President Donald J. Trump’s move from “Artificial Intelligence” to “Super Intelligence” is no longer just White House terminology. The change is spreading across the federal g

On October 14 at The Harvard Club, Awni will moderate a discussion on AI, space tech and deep tech as family offices confront a harder question: not whether the technology is powerful, but what deserves trust. Richard Awni, Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute, will moderate The New Tech Superpowers: AI, Space Tech, and Deep Tech in Discussion at the Prestel & Partner Family Office Forum New York, October 13-14, 2026, at The Harvard Club LOS ANGELES — T

The country’s AI-readiness debate is missing one number: in the Institute’s classrooms, 78 percent of students were already using AI before anyone taught them how. Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9, 2026 – Seventy-eight percent of the students in the Artificial Intelligence Institute’s classrooms were already using AI before anyone taught them how. Only 13.6 percent had received any guidance. That is the

In the Institute’s classrooms, 78 percent of students were already using AI before anyone taught them how. Only 13.6 percent had received any guidance. President Donald J. Trump signs executive orders alongside Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in the Oval Office, April 23, 2025. Official White House Photo. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8, 2026 - Seventy-eight percent of the students in the Artificial Intelligence Institute’s classrooms were already using AI before anyone taught them