President Donald Trump on Sunday (October 4, 2026) tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence. U.S.
The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week and said they had signed a voluntary accord that would effectively self-police the development of the technology. Others on the task force include the Federal Trade Commission’s chairman, Andrew Ferguson; Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer; and Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management. The group will report to Mr. Trump and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force,” because he has tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence. The task force will coordinate the federal effort “to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans,” Trump in a post on social media Sunday. The task force will reach out to consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and AI companies, the Republican president said. Earlier reporting noted: Under Clayton, the new Super Intelligence Force — Trump’s preferred term for artificial intelligence — will ensure that the United States “continue to lead the world” in AI development, the president posted on his Truth Social platform. Earlier reporting noted: Trump said the force had also been tasked to “protect the interests, and improve the lives of all Americans.”
Earlier reporting noted: US President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed national intelligence chief Jay Clayton as head of a new White House task force on artificial intelligence, amid increasingly vocal warnings from researchers about the technology’s potential dangers.
