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Trump AI task force adopts charter, orders risk report
The White House’s artificial intelligence task force began work under a 120-day deadline, asked advisers for a risk report, and assigned members to draft reporting and coordination plans.
- The White House’s AI task force adopted its charter and entered a 120-day period for its work.
- At its first meeting, it asked the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology to assess AI risk in cybersecurity, biosecurity and dual-use uses, and model control and accountability.
- Emil Michael was assigned to lead work on protocols for laboratories to notify the government about breaches, hacks and other cyber problems.
- The task force also created a law-enforcement and consumer-protection committee, with Andrew Ferguson leading it and the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission taking part.
The White House’s AI task force formally adopted its charter and started its 120-day timetable. The move followed its first meeting on Thursday.
According to an announcement shared with Semafor, the task force asked the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology for a report on AI risk. The report was to cover cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, biosecurity and dual-use uses, and model control and accountability.
The task force also set up a group to carry out the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which major AI chief executives signed this month. Jay Clayton and Sean Cairncross were to lead that work, while Emil Michael was assigned to build reporting protocols for lab breaches and other cyber incidents.
A separate committee on law enforcement and consumer protection was formed with the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, and Andrew Ferguson was put in charge of it. Scott Kupor was to work on infrastructure protection with the public and private sectors and on a Department of Labor study of AI’s effect on workers and the economy.
The membership list also included JD Vance, Scott Bessent, Pete Hegseth, Michael Kratsios, Chris Klomp, Frank Bisignano, Joshua Rudd, Susie Wiles and Richard Walters. A White House official said possible enforcement could include export controls, and cited the temporary controls the Commerce Department placed on Anthropic after the company declined to give the government unrestricted access to its models.
Named in this story
People
- Jay Clayton
- served as the task force chair
- Sean Cairncross
- served as national cyber director and co-led a working group
- Emil Michael
- was assigned to lead lab-breach reporting protocols
- Andrew Ferguson
- led the coordination committee as FTC chair
- Scott Kupor
- was tasked with infrastructure work and an AI workforce study
- JD Vance
- was listed as a task force member
- Scott Bessent
- was listed as a task force member
- Pete Hegseth
- was listed as a task force member
- Michael Kratsios
- was listed as a task force member
- Chris Klomp
- was listed as a task force member and was nominated for the No. 2 job at HHS
- Frank Bisignano
- was listed as a task force member and SSA commissioner
- Joshua Rudd
- was listed as a task force member and NSA director
- Susie Wiles
- was listed as a task force member and White House chief of staff
- Richard Walters
- was listed as a task force member and deputy chief of staff
Governments and agencies
- the White House’s AI task force
- adopted its charter and began its 120-day work
- President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
- was asked to produce a report on AI risks
- Justice Department
- joined the law enforcement and consumer protection coordination committee
- Federal Trade Commission
- joined the law enforcement and consumer protection coordination committee
- Office of Personnel Management
- was to work on critical infrastructure protection and labour questions
- Department of Labor
- was to work on the study of AI’s effect on work and the economy
How the source tells it
The article was mostly procedural and institutional, with mild urgency from the deadline and some boosterish official language in the White House statement.
- urgency the timetable was framed as short and tightly bounded
- boosterism an official statement cast the effort as preserving national leadership and serving the public good