President Donald Trump announced the formation of a new Super Intelligence Force (SIF) on Sunday, and picked its members who will lead the charge on AI in America.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will lead the taskforce, alongside Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon chief technology officer Emil Michael, and Director of the Office of Personnel Management Scott Kupor.
The group will be in charge of coordinating the government’s engagement with religious organizations, providers, consumers and AI companies.
The President said the SIF will ensure America continues to lead the world in on AI, ‘which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.’
The team, led by Clayton, will report to Trump and the Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social this morning, saying that the taskforce was created in response to his White House Accord on Super Intelligence that he hosted last week.
He summoned the world’s most powerful technology executives to the White House last Tuesday, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Dario Amodei.
It was at this meeting-of-minds that Trump announced he was renaming artificial intelligence to super intelligence in all government communications.
President Donald Trump announced the formation of a new Super Intelligence Force on Sunday, and picked its members who will lead the charge on AI in America
‘We’re going to be signing a document today at about 5 o’clock, renaming artificial intelligence, because it’s not artificial, we all agree on that,’ Trump said.
‘We’re going to be renaming it super intelligence,’ Trump continued.
Trump’s full embrace of AI, or SI, comes while Democrats like Senator Bernie Sanders are calling for a halt to further developing the technology over fears it will put Americans out of work or at a disadvantage.
White House officials have stressed the importance of US AI labs pushing ahead with development despite those concerns, noting American technologists must lead the AI boom to prevent China or other rivals from dominating the space.
This is a breaking news story.
