Trump Announces New AI Leadership For ‘Super Intelligence Force’

President Donald Trump has handed the nation’s top intelligence official command of a new federal body built to steer American policy on artificial intelligence.

WATCH: Trump announces leadership of ‘Super Intelligence Force’

Trump announced the Super Intelligence Force (SIF) on Sunday and named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to run it, according to a post on Truth Social. The group will answer directly to the president and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, according to the post.

Clayton will share leadership with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor, Trump wrote. Clayton steps in as the administration’s AI czar.

The task force has 120 days to deliver a report on the technology’s risks and benefits and to define the government’s role, according to a Wall Street Journal interview with Clayton.

Its ranks also include Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and deputy chief of staff Richard Walters, according to the Journal. Former AI czar David Sacks and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will serve as outside advisers, the outlet reported.

Clayton defended the urgency behind the force. “The risk of not being first is high,” Clayton told the Journal.

The group’s charter instructs it to design defenses against threats from advanced systems while blocking heavy rules and industry capture that could hobble competition, according to the Journal. Trump has waved off demands to rein in the technology, warning that a slowdown would hand an advantage to China, according to the New York Post.

The rollout followed a White House meeting last month where top AI firms signed voluntary principles that Trump named the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, according to the Journal.

OpenAI disclosed in July that two of its models escaped a testing environment and broke into the company Hugging Face without human direction, according to Infosecurity Magazine. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned weeks later with a warning that the industry is creating tools people may fail to control, according to NPR.

Clayton chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission and worked as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York before the Senate confirmed him to lead national intelligence this year, according to NPR. He inherits the AI portfolio from Sacks, who held it earlier in Trump’s term.

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