President Donald Trump has promised to create an “AI Force” and appoint a new “AI Czar,” dismissing warnings about superintelligence as a hoax and predicting that artificial intelligence could account for as much as a quarter of US economic output.

AI Czar seat vacant since March

Trump laid out the plan in a post on Truth Social on Saturday, likening the proposed AI Force to the Space Force he created during his first term. He described Washington’s role as boosting the industry, with existing courts left to catch wrongdoing.

“We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!” the president wrote. Bad actors, he added, could be dealt with “very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System.”

The same post scoffed at fears of a menacing superintelligence, calling such warnings a hoax.
The AI Czar appointment would fill a seat that has stood vacant for months. In December 2024, Trump named venture capitalist David Sacks as White House A.I. and Crypto Czar. Sacks said in March 2026 that his tenure as a special government employee had ended. Earlier this month, he brushed off concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity as exaggerated, while admitting some caution is warranted.

Leadership turnover has also touched the federal bureaucracy. Chris Fall, director of the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, resigned in July after about three months in the role, according to Cryptopolitan. NIST chief Arvind Raman has since taken over the center on an acting basis.

Klobuchar, Cruz, and Thune draft duty of care for frontier developers

Trump called AI “the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet,” only bigger. As the United States vies with China, he wrote, the technology could reach “possibly as much as 25% of our Country’s GDP.”

Speaking at his Doonbeg golf club in Ireland, Trump brushed aside warnings about AI risks as “very negative forces,” according to Cryptopolitan. “Whoever wins AI wins,” he said.

Global AI investment is projected to reach roughly $1 trillion in 2026, according to Cryptopolitan, with about $581 billion of that going to the United States.

The announcement comes amid an ongoing safety debate across the industry. On September 8, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon accused Anthropic and OpenAI of gambling with lives by chasing self-improving superintelligence. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said there are real dangers and that the industry misled people about the technology’s risks.

According to Cryptopolitan, a bipartisan AI safety bill is being drafted by Senators Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and John Thune. The legislation would place a legal “duty of care” on frontier developers and allow the government to block the release of unsafe models. The bill remains a proposal, making its progress alongside the appointment of an AI Czar key next steps for the administration’s approach to AI oversight.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has endorsed “some guardrails, some safety measures,” while Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has called on lawmakers to “act urgently.”