The Trump administration’s newly created “Super Intelligence Force” held its first meeting this week, setting out a plan to follow up on commitments made by artificial intelligence companies at a White House meeting last month.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, who chairs the task force, discussed the meeting on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Friday, calling it productive.
“It was a very good meeting. We set out a protocol and path for making sure those Accords are implemented and that we’re in dialogue with those frontier labs,” Clayton said.
President Trump announced the formation of the task force earlier this month after a White House meeting in which executives from leading AI companies agreed to a voluntary set of guardrails for developing the technology.
The group has been given 120 days to study the risks and opportunities presented by AI and to recommend what role, if any, the federal government should play in regulating it.
At its first meeting, the task force reportedly adopted its charter and directed the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology to review risk in three specific areas: cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, biosecurity and dual-use applications, and model control and accountability.
Trump has repeatedly signaled that he does not want domestic regulation to slow the AI industry’s growth while the United States competes with China for dominance in the technology. That leaves Clayton and the task force with a narrow window to determine how to manage AI’s risks without undercutting the country’s competitive position.
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