confirmed<\/a> by the Senate in July to lead the US intelligence community. Clayton succeeded Bill Pulte, a controversial housing executive with no national security experience whom Trump installed as acting director for a 40-day tenure.\n <\/p>\n\n When asked about AI during his confirmation hearing, Clayton said the technology is a \u201cgame changer\u201d and that it\u2019s \u201cnot only an opportunity but a threat.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhen something\u2019s both an opportunity and a threat, you better get your arms around it,\u201d Clayton said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Venture capitalist David Sacks previously served as Trump\u2019s AI and cryptocurrency czar until March 2026, when he stepped down after reaching his time limit as a special government employee. He now co-chairs the president\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.\n <\/p>\n
\n Sacks has continued to have considerable influence on the president when it comes to AI issues.\n <\/p>\n
\n On Tuesday, Trump told reporters that he was \u201cvery close to making a decision,\u201d regarding his pick for the role. \u201cI\u2019ll be naming one, I\u2019d say, over the next three or four days.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Trump added that he first wanted to check with \u201cthe companies\u201d as well as House GOP leadership in Congress before making his decision.\n <\/p>\n
\n The president has made clear that he considers outpacing China and preserving AI-driven economic gains a higher priority than addressing growing public concerns, and previously referred to fears over AI as being a \u201choax.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is expected to pick Jay Clayton to be the White House\u2019s new czar of artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-868459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}