Artificial Intelligence
Trump says Bessent will not be AI czar
Donald Trump said Scott Bessent would not become his artificial intelligence czar after reports that the Treasury secretary had been under consideration for the role.
- Trump said on Friday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent would not be appointed as his artificial intelligence czar.
- Trump said Bessent did not want the post and that he wanted to keep him at the Treasury.
- The announcement followed reports that Bessent was being considered for the role.
- On 19 September, Trump said he would create an AI force and name an AI czar soon.
Trump said on Friday that Scott Bessent would not become his artificial intelligence czar. He said Bessent did not want the job and that he wanted him to remain at the Treasury.
The statement came after reports from Semafor and Reuters said Bessent was under consideration for the post. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social.
On 19 September, Trump said he would set up an AI force and name an AI czar in the near future. In that post, he said AI could become a very large part of the US economy and said the US was ahead of China and the rest of the world.
Named in this story
People
- Donald Trump
- said Scott Bessent would not be appointed as AI czar
- Scott Bessent
- Treasury secretary whom Trump said would stay at Treasury
Governments and agencies
- Treasury
- the department Trump said Bessent would continue to lead
Products and systems
- Truth Social
- the platform where Trump posted his statement
How the source tells it
Mostly plain reporting, with a brief burst of boosterish rhetoric in Trump’s own quoted remarks about AI’s scale and the US-China race.
- boosterism Trump’s quoted claims cast AI as a vast economic shift and assign it an outsized share of GDP
- rivalry the article repeats Trump’s framing of AI as a contest with China and the wider world