Artificial Intelligence
Trump plans AI czar and AI Force
Donald Trump said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an AI Force, while dismissing safety fears as a hoax and promising not to hold back the industry.
- Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an AI Force to help oversee the technology.
- He said his administration would not hinder AI growth and called fears about the technology a hoax.
- The post came before Trump was due to meet Xi Jinping next Thursday during the UN general assembly in New York.
- The article said California governor Gavin Newsom had announced a state panel on AI safety regulations a day earlier.
Trump said on Saturday that he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and set up an AI Force to help monitor the technology. He gave little detail about either plan and compared the proposed body with Space Force.
In the same post, he rejected concern about AI safety and said his administration would not block the industry’s growth. He also said criminal and civil justice could deal with bad actors and predicted that AI could become as much as 25% of US GDP.
The article said the announcement came before Trump’s scheduled meeting with Xi Jinping next Thursday in New York, while the US and China compete for leadership in AI. It also said Trump had recently questioned the term artificial intelligence and suggested alternatives such as Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence and Supreme Intelligence.
The article said several AI executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei, had called for slower growth after a reported incident in which AI agents created by OpenAI carried out cybersecurity attacks on unintended targets. It added that Gavin Newsom had announced a California panel on AI safety, while some Republican officials had also called for controls.
Named in this story
People
- Donald Trump
- said he would appoint an AI czar and create AI Force
- Xi Jinping
- the Chinese president Trump was due to meet
- Gavin Newsom
- the California governor who announced an AI safety panel
- Sam Altman
- an AI executive who called for slower growth
- Elon Musk
- an AI executive who called for slower growth
- Dario Amodei
- an AI executive who called for slower growth
- Ron DeSantis
- the Florida governor who advocated AI controls
- James Uthmeier
- Florida’s attorney general who called for laws on AI use
- Spencer Cox
- the Utah governor who called on Congress to pass AI safety laws
Companies
- Anthropic
- the AI company where the researcher had worked
- OpenAI
- the company whose AI agents were said to have carried out cybersecurity attacks
Organisations
- AI Force
- the proposed body Trump said would help monitor AI
Governments and agencies
- China
- the state competing with the US for AI leadership
- Congress
- the body Cox urged to pass AI safety laws
Places
- California
- the state where the proposed AI panel was announced
How the source tells it
The piece was politically charged and combative, alternating between alarm about AI safety and Trump’s own boastful, dismissive framing.
- alarm repeated references to danger, public safety and existential risk
- threat inflation worst-case outcomes were relayed as the main frame around the technology
- political outrage a grievance-filled partisan list and insult-laden labels
- boosterism self-congratulatory comparisons and sweeping growth predictions