President Trump announced Saturday that he is creating an AI Force and appointing an AI Czar, vowing to accelerate American artificial intelligence while rejecting fears of a superintelligence threat as a hoax.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is creating an "AI Force" and appointing an "AI Czar," a two-part initiative meant to accelerate American artificial intelligence while keeping the country ahead of its global competitors. In a lengthy post on Truth Social, the president compared the new effort to the Space Force he established during his first term, framing artificial intelligence as the defining industrial frontier of the coming decade. He rejected the idea that advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity, dismissing those fears as a hoax, and made clear that Washington will not slow the industry down.
The move puts the White House at the center of the most consequential technology race of the modern era, and it signals that the administration intends to champion American builders rather than restrain them.
Trump said the coming "AI Force" would mirror the structure and ambition of the Space Force, giving the federal government a dedicated vehicle for advancing artificial intelligence rather than managing its decline. He also confirmed that he will formally appoint an "AI Czar" to lead the effort, with the pick to be revealed in the near future.
"Only High I.Q. individuals need apply," Trump wrote, a line that underscored how central the role will be to his second-term agenda. The president has long treated the czar model as a way to cut through agency inertia, and the AI post is expected to carry influence over procurement, permitting and research priorities that reach across the federal government.
The czar title is not new to this administration. In December 2024, Trump named venture investor David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar, a role Sacks held as a special government employee until his time in the position ended in March 2026. The next appointee will inherit an industry moving faster than any regulatory framework can track, with new models arriving on a monthly cadence and data center construction reshaping the power grid across the country.
The president used the announcement to push back hard on the alarmist strain of the AI debate. He dismissed the possibility of a machine superintelligence that could threaten human existence, arguing that existing law already supplies the tools needed to police bad actors.
"We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!" Trump wrote. "However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System."
That message echoes his recent call into a Los Angeles technology summit, where he praised data centers as the oil of the next 25 years and brushed aside the safety warnings coming out of parts of Silicon Valley.
The contrast with the safety-focused wing of the industry could hardly be sharper. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has publicly urged the industry to slow down, and former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned on September 8 that leading laboratories are gambling with human lives by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Trump's answer is that American law, not preemptive restraint, is the right safeguard, and that the greater risk lies in falling behind.
Trump described artificial intelligence as "the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet," and predicted the sector could eventually account for as much as 25 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
The economic stakes explain the urgency. Data centers, power generation, chip manufacturing and advanced research now sit at the center of the national growth story, and the administration has argued that the country which leads in AI will write the rules for everyone else. That argument has already reshaped fights over energy capacity, state incentives and the workforce needed to build and operate the infrastructure.
The president framed the contest in plain terms: "We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!"
His allies in Congress have spent the year pushing in the same direction, from ratepayer protections for power-hungry data centers to a federal push to bring research and manufacturing jobs home. The AI Force and the czar give that effort a single, visible command post inside the executive branch.
The immediate question is who Trump will name as AI Czar and how much authority the office will carry. A czar with real influence over federal contracts, export decisions and research funding could move the industry faster than any bill Congress manages to pass.
Lawmakers will also be watching how the AI Force is organized and whether it becomes a permanent fixture of the national security apparatus or a coordinating office that leans on existing agencies. Either path would give the White House a stronger hand in the global competition for talent, compute and capital.
Critics of rapid development, meanwhile, will keep pressing for guardrails, and their arguments will now have to compete against an administration that has made acceleration an explicit goal. The president's message to the industry was unmistakable: Washington will not stand in the way of American artificial intelligence. It intends to stand behind it.
President Trump announced Saturday that he is creating an AI Force and appointing an AI Czar, vowing to accelerate American artificial intelligence while rejecting fears of a superintelligence threat as a hoax.
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