Trump's new AI czar Jay Clayton heads to Silicon Valley to meet Huang and Altman
Bloomberg reports that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, Trump's newly appointed point person on AI, will travel to Silicon Valley to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It is his first meeting with tech leaders since taking charge of a new team coordinating federal AI policy, following a White House lunch where AI developers signed a voluntary safety agreement and Trump's subsequent announcement that Clayton would lead a "Super Intelligence Force" reporting to him and chief of staff Susie Wiles. Speaking to CNBC, Clayton said models must have control and monitoring mechanisms acceptable to developers, enterprises and the American public, and defended using existing liability law as the main tool for holding the industry accountable.
It shows the US federal AI governance structure taking shape, with safety commitments and accountability rules for leading model makers moving into concrete negotiation.