President Donald Trump is expected to appoint US intelligence director Jay Clayton as the new AI czar, CNN and other media outlets reported Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Cointelegraph reported on September 20 that Trump plans to create an “AI force” modeled after the Space Force and hire an artificial intelligence czar. The president posted on Truth Social that his new project would manage the fast-growing AI sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation.
Trump’s actions followed several public warnings about the potential dangers of AI.
Cointelegraph reported on September 12 that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote a three-step proposal to accelerate AI development that, if left unchecked, “could outpace our ability to understand and control these systems.”
Anthropologist chief calls for slowing AI development to safe pace
Subsequently, Anthropic said it has selected Accenture as an embedded evaluator to help moderate the pace of AI development, moving forward with the first steps outlined in Amody’s proposal, Cointelegraph reported.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk Amodei responded positively to Amodei’s proposal, though Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did not, arguing that such regulation was not necessary.
On Tuesday, Trump gathered AI and technology chiefs at the White House to sign their companies’ AI models and commitments to development, Cointelegraph reported.
Clayton led the SEC during Trump’s first term
CBS News was first Report Clayton was the frontrunner for the AI position. Still, a White House official told CBS that any such announcement would come directly from the president, dismissing the reports as speculation.
Clayton led the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term, served as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and is expected to remain in his current role as director of national intelligence, sources told CNN.
The Senate confirmed Clayton in July to lead the intelligence community.
Asked about AI during his confirmation hearing, Clayton said the technology is a “game changer” and is “not just an opportunity but a threat,” according to CNN.
Crypto czar David Sachs argues that the AI threat is Orwellian, not Terminator
Cointelegraph reported in March that David Sachs, a venture capitalist who became a White House special official under Trump last year, had completed his 130-day tenure as crypto and AI czar. Under US regulations, such special government employees are limited to 130 days of work in a 12-month period.
“We used that time now,” Sacks to say Bloomberg noted in March that he would continue to make policy recommendations on a wide range of technology industries as vice chairman of the President’s Advisory Council on Science and Technology.
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