US President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence task force called the Super Intelligence Force to oversee and coordinate the federal government's AI policy, with the goal of maintaining US leadership in developing the technology amid growing pressure on the government to step up oversight of AI safety. The task force will be led by Jay Clayton, the US Director of National Intelligence, and its members will include Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, Emil Michael, the Pentagon's undersecretary for research and engineering, and Scott Kupor, director of the US Office of Personnel Management. It will report directly to President Trump and to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff. The announcement follows Trump's disclosure last week that he would set up a committee to oversee AI safety after executives from leading technology companies signed what Trump called a morally binding agreement on September 29, with executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and Google taking part, amid concerns about the risks from rapidly advancing AI. Meanwhile, Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, said in an interview published on October 4 that the benefits of AI are great enough for society to accept some risks, and that he believes AI should remain a technology accessible to the general public. Trump also signed an executive order on September 29 directing the US government to rename Artificial Intelligence technology as Super Intelligence, having earlier argued that the word Artificial makes the technology sound fake. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the Tesla executive, said via social media on Sunday that he would rename his company's AI platform from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, declaring that SpaceX is a Super Intelligence company.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Class A Common StockSpaceX participated in the AI safety agreement and Musk said he would rename its AI platform to SpaceXSI, but no concrete regulatory or business impact is stated.
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Tesla IncOpenAI executives signed the AI safety agreement and Sam Altman commented on AI risk, but the task force's impact on OpenAI is unclear.
Anthropic executives took part in the AI safety agreement, but the article gives no specific regulatory outcome for the company.
