Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax”

President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.

Bloomberg 2026-09-20 María Paula Mijares Torres

Context & Ripple Effects

The proposed AI posts extend an administration line that paired a 2025 AI Action Plan seeking rollbacks of Biden-era measures with a hands-off regulatory posture framed around US competition with China. Five days earlier, Trump had also publicly attacked Dario Amodei over AI guardrails.

A czar and an AI Force would add institutional machinery to that development-first agenda, but the announcement does not specify either body's authority, membership, or remit.

First-order effects

Technology companies gain a prospective White House AI counterpart through the announced czar role and AI Force, although neither body's operational powers have been defined.

Second-order effects

If the administration pursues its draft plan for federal control of AI regulation, the new roles could concentrate federal coordination while narrowing the policy space left to state-level AI rules.

Third-order effects

If given durable authority, the czar-and-force model would shift US AI policy toward state-mediated industrial policy: central coordination organized around development and national competitiveness rather than standalone safety governance.

The trend: US AI policy is moving toward federal coordination designed to accelerate domestic capability and frame AI as a strategic-competition priority.

Discussion

NewsMax.com NewsMax.com on x
Trump Defends AI Industry, Announces New “AI Force”
@realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x
Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
President Trump announced the formation of the US AI Force to oversee the development of artificial intelligence, and in the near future will be announcing an AI Czar.
@goldman Jason Goldman on x
Trump is into AI for the outfits https://www.nytimes.com/...
@daniellefong Danielle Fong on x
OH YEAH well i'm appointing an AI Czar for Transgender for Everyone! What do you think about that. I'm going to give you so many genders. Just you wait. Mwahahahahahahaa haha
@daniellefong Danielle Fong on x
they are going to force all of the AI force soldiers to take T. they are going to try for the highest testosterone and most looksmaxxed AI lab of all time
@jeffbercovici Jeff Bercovici on x
Supreme Intelligence costs an extra 80 cents but you get sour cream and diced tomatoes
@atrupar Aaron Rupar on x
When you are not reading the room
@daniellefong Danielle Fong on x
if you thought you were tired of an omnicause discourse, you haven't seen anything yet
@darrigomelanie Melanie D'Arrigo on x
Trump is creating an “AI Force,” with an “AI Czar,” so his billionaire AI donors can have an official voice in his administration. This is what corruption looks like.
@beffjezos @beffjezos on x
Any sort of AI Cyberdefense or AI Biodefense work should be a contract from the US AI Force and under strict clearance/export control, just like any sensitive defense work in aerospace. The labs are not getting nationalized, but some of the frontier work might fall under this.
@beffjezos @beffjezos on x
New Frontier Lab just dropped: US AI Force 🫡🪖🤖
@gavinnewsom Gavin Newsom on x
Donald Trump is a failure. Instead of regulating AI, he's posting polls to rename it. California is taking action. I just signed an executive order accelerating America's first independent AI safety oversight framework. More to come!
@davidsacks David Sacks on x
Thanks to President Trump's leadership on AI: — a million new jobs have been created around the AI buildout; — 401(k)s are up ~12% this year as AI capex and productivity lift the market; — America is re-industrializing, including the first large private investments in power gener…
@luke_metro @luke_metro on x
need a Polymarket to bet on the identity of Trump's AI czar
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
@realDonaldTrump I agree. I propose synthetic intelligence
@basedmikelee Mike Lee on x
The U.S. needs to dominate in AI Hats off to President Trump for working so hard to put us in a good position to do so
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@realDonaldTrump It will be incomprehensibly smart to us
@lsanger Larry Sanger on x
So Trump wants to make an AI Force, a government agency modeled after the military (it appears). That's not weird at all!
@thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x
This is from the NYT, and... does Trump know that the United States already decided to ‘go its own way and impose mandatory reviews of the safety of new, AMerican-generated models?’ Trump literally did that.
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
wonder if Sacks will stand by this if things fall apart, e.g., in terms of economics, cybersecurity, or safety?
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Trump says he's creating an AI force and appointing a czar amid concerns over the rapidly developing tech

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