Trump taps intelligence chief Jay Clayton to lead 'Super Intelligence Force'
US President Donald Trump has named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to head a new "Super Intelligence Force," which Trump said will coordinate federal engagement with consumers, public-interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and "Super Intelligence Companies," reporting directly to him and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson and Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, are also on the taskforce. The announcement follows a late-September executive order directing agencies to use "SI" and "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI" in official communications; Elon Musk then said SpaceXAI would be renamed SpaceXSI. Senator Elizabeth Warren and others have criticized the body as a substitute for actual regulation.
It signals Washington's continued preference for voluntary industry self-regulation over new AI laws, even as cyber incidents involving frontier models and internal criticism mount.