President Trump announced a new Super Intelligence Force to keep America first in advanced AI, pairing top officials with a clear refusal to throttle the technology under heavy regulation.

President Donald Trump said Sunday he is standing up a federal Super Intelligence Force to coordinate the government’s work on what he now calls Super Intelligence. Fox News reported the move after he posted the plan on Truth Social, following a White House summit with major tech leaders.

The force is charged with keeping the United States ahead as the technology races forward. It will also coordinate federal contact with consumers, public-interest and religious groups, critical infrastructure providers, and technology companies. Senior officials will lead it and report directly to Trump and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

Trump framed the stakes in plain terms. He said Super Intelligence is bigger than the Industrial Revolution and the internet, and that it will protect American interests and improve lives if the country stays in front.

"The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence,"

Trump wrote on Truth Social, according to the full post carried by Just the News. He added that the technology “will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.”

Clayton tapped to lead the new force

Trump named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to head the Super Intelligence Force as AI czar. The New York Post reported Clayton has 120 days to deliver a report on the technology’s pros and cons.

Clayton described the assignment in straightforward language to the Wall Street Journal.

"The president asked that a group be put together that was going to ensure exactly what he said... [that] we stay the leaders in super intelligence and that the interests of the American people are put first,"

he said.

The leadership bench runs deeper than one name. The force includes Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, among other senior officials. The Washington Examiner reported that FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, OPM Director Scott Kupor, and Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael will also help lead the effort.

That structure puts national security, markets, competition policy, and the federal workforce in the same room. The goal is clear: mitigate real risks without letting Washington smother the industry that has to build the technology.

Trump has already shown he will move fast on major policy when he sees a national interest, as he did when he ordered the federal switch from “AI” language to Super Intelligence after the same tech summit.

White House Accord followed the tech summit

The force announcement came after a high-level White House meeting with top technology leaders on Sept. 29, 2026. Executives signed what the administration called a “morally binding” White House Accord on Super Intelligence.

Trump said the companies treated the document with unusual weight.

"They almost viewed it as a separate kind of constitution,"

he said. “When they signed that, it meant a lot.”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg later called the summit a “positive step.” He pointed to commitments from the major American labs.

"I think it's a significant positive step that the leaders of every major American lab have committed to implementing robust internal controls and multiple layers of audits and reviews,"

Zuckerberg wrote on X.

The sequence matters. First came the summit and the accord. Then came the executive-branch renaming of artificial intelligence to Super Intelligence. Then came the Super Intelligence Force itself, with named leaders and a reporting line straight to the president and his chief of staff.

Trump has used the same direct approach on other high-visibility files, including mailing refund checks tied to health coverage costs and pressing energy steps that ease pressure on households.

No appetite for choking growth

Trump has opposed imposing formal guardrails that would slow Super Intelligence development. He put the vow in blunt language after gathering the AI CEOs.

"I will never stifle the growth of technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution,"

Trump said, according to the New York Post’s account of the push.

That stance sits at the center of the new force’s design. The group is told to protect American interests and keep the United States first. It is not told to freeze the industry in place while other countries race ahead.

Critics of light-touch oversight have pressed for tighter federal limits. Trump’s answer is coordination, internal company controls, and a short-fuse assessment from Clayton, not a thicket of new rules that would hand the lead to overseas rivals.

The same preference for results over mandate-heavy policy has shown up elsewhere, from fuel rules that scrap the prior electric-vehicle mandate to enforcement tools courts have cleared for border removals.

Religious groups, infrastructure operators, and ordinary consumers are explicitly on the engagement list. So are the companies building the systems. The administration is treating Super Intelligence as a national capability, not a niche lab project.

Susie Wiles sits in the reporting chain with Trump. That keeps the force tied to the West Wing rather than buried in a distant bureaucracy. Clayton’s 120-day clock puts a near-term deliverable on paper while the technology keeps moving.

Open questions remain. The full text of the executive order and the accord were not released in the initial reporting. The precise legal weight of a “morally binding” industry document is also unsettled. What is not unsettled is the president’s direction: America first on Super Intelligence, with a dedicated force to keep it that way.

In a contest this large, hesitation is a choice, and Trump is choosing speed, clarity, and U.S. command of the next industrial leap.