Trump is expected to appoint Jay Clayton as new AI czar: Reports

US intel chief Clayton may be asked to also oversee AI innovation and development along with “self policing” tech CEOs. President Donald Trump is expected to appoint Jay Clayton, US director of national intelligence, as the new AI czar, CNN and other media reported Friday, citing unidentified sources. Cointelegraph reported Sept. 20 that Trump planned to create an “AI Force” modeled after the Space Force and appoint 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 Sept. 12 that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had written a three-step proposal to pace the speed of AI development that if left unchecked, might “outrun our ability to understand and control these systems.” Anthropic chief urges slowdown in AI development to safer pace Subsequently, Anthropic said it had chosen Accenture as an embedded evaluator to help moderate the pace of AI development, moving ahead with the first step outlined in Amodei’s proposal, Cointelegraph said. OpenAI CEO >Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO >Elon Musk responded positively to Amodei’s proposal, although 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 a commitment to “self-police” their companies’ AI models and development, Cointelegraph reported. CBS News first >reported that 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 t