Trump’s AI Force Plan Leaves Mandate Unclear as Safety Fight Builds
SiliconANGLE reported that Trump plans an AI Force and a new AI czar while rejecting slowdown calls, leaving the body’s powers, budget and agency role unresolved.
President Donald Trump’s plan for an “AI Force” and a new AI czar puts the White House on a pro-growth policy track at the same moment safety advocates are pressing for tighter controls, SiliconANGLE reported from Trump’s Truth Social post and surrounding debate.
The proposal was sketched in broad terms rather than as a finished executive action.
Trump pledged that federal policy would not hold back the industry’s expansion and compared the proposed AI Force with the Space Force created during his first term.
The post did not identify a nominee for the czar role, set a hiring timeline or explain the force’s mandate.
That absence of detail matters because the rest of the message leaned against new AI constraints.
Trump dismissed warnings that advanced systems could take over the world or kill humans as a “hoax,” and pointed to the existing criminal and civil justice system as the mechanism for handling AI-related dangers.
He also described the technology as potentially worth as much as 25% of U.S. gross domestic product and cast it as larger and more influential than the industrial revolution or the internet.
The AI czar concept is not new for the administration.
Venture capitalist David Sacks was appointed after Trump returned to office for his second term, then left the formal post in March after reaching the limit for service as a special government employee.
Sacks has continued to advise on AI through the White House science and technology advisory council.
The timing places the announcement inside a sharper policy split.
Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei’s recent proposal was for the industry to leave more time between major frontier-model advances so new systems can be evaluated before release.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon had also raised the stakes with the view that leading labs were moving toward self-improving intelligence in a way he framed as a gamble with human safety.
Support for a slower pace has reached high-profile AI figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis.
Trump’s answer to that logic was built on competitiveness grounds: a slowdown would benefit Chinese AI developers and could let China build an unassailable lead.
Several Chinese officials have also rejected slowdown proposals.
The political framing was sharper than the policy design.
Trump likened AI safety concerns to climate claims he has previously dismissed and described the latest fears as conspiracies from “Radical Left Democrats,” even though concern about AI risks has also come from Republicans.
The contrast leaves two policy tracks in view: one emphasizing acceleration and strategic competition, the other seeking more time to test frontier systems before they spread.
A senior AI gathering around the U.N. General Assembly and Trump’s planned talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping give the administration an immediate forum for the issue.
For now, the announced AI Force has no disclosed powers, budget, leadership, agency home or relationship to the existing advisory structure.
