{"id":920779,"date":"2026-10-04T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920779\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:16:12","slug":"trump-names-intelligence-chief-jay-clayton-as-ai-czar-to-head-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920779\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as AI czar to head task force"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jay Clayton during a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in Washington in June. U.S. President Donald Trump has named Mr. Clayton as the administration’s AI czar.Mariam Zuhaib\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton the administration\u2019s AI czar, tasking him with coordinating the federal government\u2019s efforts to maintain U.S. leadership in the technology.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has pushed to rename artificial intelligence as \u201csuper intelligence,\u201d said Clayton would head the newly created Super Intelligence Force (SIF), overseeing the government\u2019s engagement with consumers, religious groups, AI companies and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that SIF would aim to \u201censure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence\u201d and to \u201cprotect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The announcement confirmed a Wall Street Journal report in which Clayton, appointed intelligence chief in August, said Trump had tapped him to lead the administration\u2019s push to keep the U.S. at the forefront of AI. \u201cThe risk of not being first is high,\u201d Clayton told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Clayton said the task force would have 120 days to produce a report assessing the risks and opportunities posed by AI and recommending what role the federal government should play.<\/p>\n

The safety of AI has become a major issue in recent weeks, with some researchers warning that people building the technology believe it could kill humans within a decade. Several Democratic and Republican lawmakers have responded with alarm and calls for more action.<\/p>\n

Trump has appeared to take a light touch toward AI regulation, arguing that excessive oversight could weaken competitiveness against China. He said on Tuesday that he does not want to work with Chinese President Xi Jinping on governing AI technology.<\/p>\n

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Clayton\u2019s panel will review AI-related risks and current government reporting mechanisms for breaches, hacks and other incidents, and recommend ways to strengthen federal-response capabilities under existing authorities, the Journal said, citing the task force\u2019s charter.<\/p>\n

This is the second time Trump has named an adviser to oversee AI-related decisions across the administration. Venture capitalist David Sacks held the AI czar role at the beginning of Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n

In addition to Clayton, the task force\u2019s leaders will include Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael and Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

The panel will report to the president and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Jay Clayton during a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in Washington in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,901,276,277,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-920779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alberta","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}