President Donald Trump has named Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a newly created federal task force on artificial intelligence. Trump is branding the effort the “Super Intelligence Force,” continuing his push to rename AI as “super intelligence” in official messaging.

The announcement, made in a social media post on Sunday, follows a White House meeting last week where Trump hosted executives from major AI companies who agreed to a voluntary accord intended to self-regulate development of the technology.

According to Trump, the task force is meant to coordinate federal activity around AI “to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence,” which he described as a development bigger in scale than the Industrial Revolution or the creation of the internet. The stated goals include protecting American interests and improving outcomes for citizens as the technology matures.

Who Is on the Task Force

Beyond Clayton, the task force includes several senior federal officials:

  • Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
  • Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer
  • Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management

The group will report directly to Trump and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Its mandate includes outreach to a broad set of stakeholders: consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers, and AI companies themselves.

Why It Matters

The task force’s creation comes amid growing federal attention to AI risk. The FTC has separately opened investigations into major AI developers over potential consumer risks, and reports of AI models interacting with U.S. government websites in unexpected ways have raised fresh questions about model behavior and oversight. For security professionals, the involvement of the Pentagon’s CTO and the FTC chairman signals that the task force’s scope will likely touch both national security applications of AI and consumer protection enforcement, though specific policy actions or regulatory authority have not yet been detailed.

No legislative or regulatory framework has been announced alongside the task force’s formation. It remains unclear how the group’s recommendations will interact with existing agency authority or with the voluntary industry accord struck at the White House last week.