A G20 Statement Said SI, Then a Footnote Said It Means AI

What happened at the G20 in Atlanta

The G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta ended on 31 October without a joint declaration, JKN News reports. After two days of talks, members couldn't find a common position on the war in Ukraine, energy and food security, supply chains, freedom of navigation or artificial intelligence. The US State Department summed up the meeting in a chair's statement instead.

That's the part most people will read. The part I'd read twice, as someone who sells .si names, sits further down the story. A separate joint statement on AI was published by the US and some partner countries after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met his Asia-Pacific counterparts. It names "superintelligence (SI)" as a driver of economic growth.

Then there's the footnote. It says that for Australia, India and Japan, SI means artificial intelligence.

A footnote is a translation, not a switch

JKN describes this as differences in position over terminology, and that's a fair reading. Trump had already ordered the US government to use "superintelligence" in place of "artificial intelligence". According to The Star, he's now gone further, writing on Truth Social that the term AI will soon be officially banned "in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy."

So the US wrote SI into the text. Three partners went along with the statement but added a note saying, in effect, that when they read SI they mean AI. They didn't reject the wording, and they didn't adopt it either. They translated it.

That matters because SI has now left US government paperwork and turned up in a text shared with other countries. It's a real step, but it isn't adoption. The moment the word left Washington, it came with a gloss.

The policy behind the word

It helps to remember where SI came from. A profile of Michael Kratsios, Trump's chief scientific advisor, says the White House Accord on Superintelligence, drafted by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, sought to rename AI to superintelligence without imposing new rules. Kratsios wrote the executive order.

In other words, the rename was always about language, not regulation. A footnote fits that pattern neatly: partners can sign up to the economic message without taking the new word home.

There's a telling detail in The Star's report too. In the same report, Trump is quoted saying: "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now." Even the president's own quote uses the old term.

What this means for how people search

Domain value follows the words people type. The Star notes that US media still mainly refer to artificial intelligence, even though several tech chief executives have switched to superintelligence. Now three governments have written down that SI, for them, simply means AI.

My reading for buyers is plain. SI is gaining official ground, and it's now in a diplomatic text. But search habits don't change because of a footnote, and outside the US the official line here is that SI is just another name for AI. If you're buying for traffic, the words people search today matter more than the word on a government letterhead.

That's why I'd look at .si names where the words before the dot carry the value, rather than the extension's double meaning.

What to watch at the December summit

The US holds the G20 presidency in 2026, and Trump will host the G20 summit in Florida in December. According to JKN, the UK follows in 2027 and South Korea in 2028.

So the next test isn't far off. If the summit text uses SI, look for the footnote. If it comes back with more countries on it, that's a sign the term isn't travelling well. If it disappears, that'd be worth noting. And once the presidency passes to the UK, I wouldn't assume the wording survives.

Names that work whichever word wins

A few names in my inventory fit that test. I'll stick to their data.

• aiprompts.si ($5,500): the exact phrase gets over 200,000 searches a month worldwide, the .ai twin is listed at $44,500 and the .com has been held since 2018. It keeps "AI" in the name, which suits readers in countries that still say AI.
• aivideoeditor.si ($5,000): "AI video editor" is searched 201,000 times a month worldwide, and the .com twin asks $149,995.
• aimarket.si ($4,500): the .com is listed at $594,888 and the .ai at $47,995, with 12,100 searches a month.
• greatmind.si ($2,000): the .com asks $500,000, and the phrase gets 33,100 searches a month. It doesn't depend on either acronym.
• futurehuman.si ($1,500): the .ai asks $290,000 and the .com has been held since 1999.

Should you buy a .si name because of this?

Not because of a footnote. Most .si names are speculation, and the aftermarket for them is small. A line in a diplomatic statement doesn't change that, and the footnote itself is a reminder that other governments aren't rushing to the new word.

I'd only consider a .si when the .com and .ai of the same words are taken or expensive, and only for plain generic words. Never buy a .si that copies one company's brand. If the .com of your name is available at a fair price, buy the .com. It's still the better buy for most businesses.

Before you buy, run the three-question test:

1. Is the .com and .ai taken? If either is free or cheap, that's usually the better choice.
2. Is it a generic name and not a brand? Plain words only, nothing that leans on someone else's name.
3. Do people search for it? Check that real people type the phrase, whichever acronym they use.

If a name passes all three, a .si can be a sensible, low-cost hedge. If it doesn't, I'd walk away, and I'd say the same about any name I sell.

Names from this store that pass the test

Questions

Sources

1. JKN News, 2026-11-01
2. The Star, 2026-10-30
3. news.lavx.hu, 2026-11-01

This post was researched and drafted with AI help from the sources above, then checked by me before publishing. Facts are as reported on the dates shown.