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The Director of National Intelligence will chair a new panel the administration calls the "Super Intelligence Force," with a stated mission to prevent "overregulation" before members are named.
The White House has launched a 120-day AI task force led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, the Wall Street Journal reported. The panel, which the administration calls the "Super Intelligence Force," uses President Trump's preferred term for AI and will report on the technology's risks and opportunities.
Clayton told the Journal: "The president asked that a group be put together", and added that "the risk of not being first is high". He becomes the second person to hold the informal AI czar title, succeeding venture capitalist David Sacks, who stepped down earlier this year.
The panel's stated mission is to prevent "overregulation" of the technology, language set by the administration before any members were named. The 120-day deadline arrives as bipartisan concern about AI risk is rising. Some researchers have warned in recent weeks that the technology could cause catastrophic harm within a decade, prompting calls for federal safeguards.
A 120-day process with a pre-set mission has structural limits. It can gather industry input, map competitive positioning, and surface federal coordination gaps. It is less likely to host the harder near-term risk work: capability evaluation, access rules, and concrete benchmarks, the kind some researchers and bipartisan critics say the moment needs. What the report measures will signal whether the process built a capacity audit or delivered the predetermined posture.
The administration has not yet published a formal executive order, agency charter, or member list.