Trump says US will form ‘AI Force’ and appoint AI czar
Key Takeaways
- •Trump said the proposed AI Force would be modeled on the Space Force, which he created in 2019 as the US military’s sixth branch.
- •The structure and governmental placement of the AI Force remain unspecified, with no further clarification from the White House.
- •Trump has not provided a timeline for the initiative but said the artificial intelligence czar would be announced in the near future.
- •Anthropic selected Accenture as its first embedded evaluator under a proposal intended to help moderate the pace of AI development.
- •OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk supported the proposal, while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argued that such regulation was unnecessary.
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint an artificial intelligence czar, saying the initiative would oversee the fast-growing AI sector without introducing regulations that could slow innovation.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the president said the new project would manage the sector’s rapid growth, according to Newsweek and other media.
“For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term,” Trump wrote, adding: “To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI ‘Czar’ — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!”
Trump created Space Force in 2019 as the sixth branch of the US Armed Forces during his first term.
The president did not specify whether the AI Force would be structured as a military command, a civilian agency or a department, the New York Times noted, adding that White House officials did not respond to an email seeking clarification. Attention now turns to the identity of the proposed AI czar — a name Trump said would come “in the near future” — and to any word on whether the AI Force will sit inside the military or the civilian government.
Warnings over AI’s potential dangers
Trump offered no further details or timeline for the plan, the BBC reported, noting that his announcement came amid ongoing warnings about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
Cointelegraph reported on Sept. 12 that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had drafted a three-step proposal to pace the speed of AI development, warning that systems left unchecked might “outrun our ability to understand and control these systems.”
On Sunday, Anthropic said it had selected Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help moderate the pace of AI development, moving ahead with the first step outlined in Amodei’s proposal, Cointelegraph reported.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also positively on X to Amodei’s proposal, although Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did not, arguing that such regulation was not necessary, according to CNBC. The exchange has laid bare a divide among the industry’s most prominent executives over whether AI development should be slowed, a debate unfolding even as Trump pledges oversight of the sector without regulations that could slow innovation.
