Trump creates the Super Intelligence Force: 4 officials, 120 days to set federal AI policy

#What happened

• On Sunday, Oct. 5, 2026, President Donald Trump announced a new federal body, the Super Intelligence Force (SIF), via a Truth Social post, saying it is "tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence."
• Trump's post named four officials to lead it: Jay Clayton (Director of National Intelligence), Andrew Ferguson (Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission), Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer), and Scott Kupor (Director of the Office of Personnel Management).
• The force reports directly to the president and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and its first report is due within 120 days.
• Per the Wall Street Journal's reporting on the task force's charter, the panel will review AI-related risks and the government's current reporting mechanisms for breaches, hacks and other incidents, then recommend ways to strengthen federal response capabilities under existing authorities. Clayton told the Journal that "the risk of not being first is high."
• The force will coordinate how the federal government engages with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and "Super Intelligence companies."

#Why it matters

• The SIF follows less than a week after Trump's Sept. 29 White House lunch where six AI executives (Google's Sundar Pichai, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, xAI's Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang) signed the non-binding White House Accord on Super Intelligence — Trump said after the signing that he was considering a committee to oversee the effort, and the SIF may fill that role.
• It arrived the same day Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official materials.
• The roster hints at where attention lands: Ferguson brings FTC consumer-protection and enforcement authority, and the charter's incident-reporting focus matters for organizations running critical infrastructure.

#Sources

• https://www.vktr.com/ai-news/trump-forms-super-intelligence-force-to-steer-federal-ai-policy/
• https://uxc.news/p/trump-launches-federal-ai-oversight-task-force-with-executives-from-openai-anthropic-spacex-and-google

Verified Oct 5, 2026