President Trump announced on Truth Social Saturday that he is forming an "AI Force" and will soon name a new AI czar to oversee it. "We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry," he wrote. "Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows! For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term." Of the czar role, he added only that "only High I.Q. individuals need apply" -- no name, no timeline.
Nothing about either announcement is confirmed beyond the post itself. The White House has not described the AI Force's authority, budget, staffing, or relationship to existing bodies like the National AI Initiative Office; it has not named a czar candidate or said when one will be picked. Space Force is the one direct comparison Trump himself drew, and that entity required a 2019 act of Congress to create as a sixth armed-forces branch -- whether "AI Force" means something on that scale, or a rebranded advisory post inside the existing White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is exactly the detail the announcement leaves open.
- Mar 26, 2026 — David Sacks' 130-day term as AI and crypto czar expires; he moves to co-chair PCAST instead.
- Sep 12, 2026 — Anthropic's Dario Amodei publishes 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' joined publicly by Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
- Sep 15, 2026 — Trump publicly dismisses the pacing call on Truth Social.
- Sep 19, 2026 — Trump announces an 'AI Force' and a forthcoming new czar, calling AI-extinction warnings a 'hoax.'
The post also revived Trump's dismissal of the AI-safety warnings that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk raised together earlier this month, calling out-of-control-AI fears a "hoax." Trump's own AI and crypto czar for most of his term, David Sacks, left that formal post in March 2026 when his 130-day limit as a special government employee expired, moving to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology instead -- and this month called AI-safety concern "becoming a panic," a framing that lines up with Trump's own. The seat Trump now says he'll fill has had no occupant since.
- Trump posted on Truth Social that he's forming an 'AI Force' and will soon name an AI czar.
- He called AI-extinction warnings from researchers and lab CEOs a 'hoax.'
- No structure, budget, authority or candidate was named for either the Force or the czar role.
- David Sacks left the AI/crypto czar post in March when his 130-day term limit expired.
- Caveat: Space Force needed an act of Congress -- whether 'AI Force' does too is unconfirmed.