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' (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)

María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: 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.

Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO (Washington Post)
Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-19

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