Clay­ton to cre­ate report out­lin­ing AI risks and oppor­tu­ni­ties as czar: Report

Direc­tor of Nation­al Intel­li­gence Jay Clay­ton will serve as the Trump administration’s AI czar and lead a three-month effort to estab­lish the “risks and oppor­tu­ni­ties” of the tech­nol­o­gy.
Clay­ton, who was large­ly expect­ed to lead the White House’s recent­ly formed “Super Intel­li­gence Force,” told the Wall Street Jour­nal in an exclu­sive inter­view the “risk of not being first is high” as debates about AI pol­i­cy swirl in Wash­ing­ton. His appoint­ment comes less than a week after the nation’s lead­ing AI exec­u­tives con­vened at the White House and signed a non-bind­ing com­mit­ment to self-reg­u­la­tion called the “White House Accord on Super Intel­li­gence.” 

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