The revised Business Trends and Outlook Survey now asks participants if they use Super Intelligence in any of their operational functions. This marks the second major adjustment to the question in under a year, following a November 2025 change that widened the scope beyond goods and services production. Because participating firms rotate through the 200,000-business biweekly panel every twelve weeks, respondents are encountering this unfamiliar wording for the first time. The initial findings using the updated terminology are scheduled for release this Thursday.
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Executive Order 14434 prompted the federal government to officially replace artificial in…: Executive Order 14434 prompted the federal government to officially replace artificial intelligence phrasing with Super Intelligence.
Repeated modifications to survey definitions have created difficulties for economists try…: Repeated modifications to survey definitions have created difficulties for economists trying to directly compare historical tracking data.
The introduction of novel terminology and new examples may alter how surveyed companies i…: The introduction of novel terminology and new examples may alter how surveyed companies interpret and report their actual technological adoption.
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2nd November 2026
I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in U.S. corporate AI adoption based on numbers collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. At the time I used that chart to demonstrate GPT-5 data analysis, and then to experiment with Claude’s new Code Interpreter. I decided to try running those numbers again to see what had changed over the past year, and in doing so learned that the Bureau has fallen foul of Executive Order 14434, aka the asinine Super Intelligence one.
First, the updated chart
Every two weeks the U.S. Census Bureau runs a survey called the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (aka BTOS). Each time it goes to 200,000 businesses out of 1.2 million total—the surveyed group (a “panel”) cycles such that an individual business only completes the survey every twelve weeks.
The latest data is published on alternating Thursdays at 10am.
I used the most recent numbers (published October 22, 2026) to create a…
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