Trump announced the creation of an "AI Force" and elections for an AI czar (he wrote it exactly that way in his announcement).
Yes, he's genuinely planning to establish a new federal agency — the AI Force, modeled on Space Force, which was created during his first term.
And yes, the head of this thing is literally called the AI Czar in American political terminology. In his announcement, Trump promised to name the leader soon and added:
> "Only high-IQ people need apply!"
Why it matters
- **This is a response to the panic in the Valley.** This week, heads of leading AI companies (Altman, Amodei, Musk) [called for](/en/news/amodei-pace-frontier-ai-slowdown) urgently slowing down training of new models over loss-of-control risks. Trump called these fears a "hoax." He added that nobody's slowing anything down.
- **This is the official start of an [AI arms race with China](/en/news/china-us-ai-gap-record-low).** The new administration is betting that AI is the new industrial revolution — one that could add up to 25% of GDP. To win the tech race, the industry won't be strangled with regulation.
- **Courts instead of new laws.** There's no plan to write complex restrictive laws for neural networks. In the president's view, if something goes wrong, the existing US court system should handle it.
Bottom line, the signal to investors and developers is about as clear as it gets: the government isn't going to get in the way or impose hard safety guardrails, the green light for the industry is on brighter than ever. Funny thing is, between the US and China right now, there are entire countries just stuck watching from the sidelines.