National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton Will Lead AI Task Force

The Trump administration’s new AI task force plans to produce a report on the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence within 120 days, according to an interview with the newly announced “AI czar” Jay Clayton on Saturday in the Wall Street Journal. Clayton also serves as the director of national intelligence.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the task force includes three senior officials from the Trump administration as its vice chairs: Emil Michael, undersecretary of War for Research and Engineering; Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management; and Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Other members include the national security advisor in the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice, as well as Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and former AI czar David Sacks, the Journal reported.

The Journal report also said that the task force’s charter states that the body will ensure the U.S. remains at the forefront of “SI” development, referring to super intelligence, which the Trump administration decreed as the new name for AI in an executive order last week. The White House has not released the charter, and a spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump first announced the AI task force in a Truth Social post in September, although at the time he didn’t identify its members. Since then, the White House hosted a number of industry leaders from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta at a lunch, where they agreed to a voluntary joint agreement to enact certain safety measures such as partnering with third-party auditors to evaluate their models. In a Sunday post on Truth Social, Trump confirmed the composition of the task force.