President Donald Trump has announced plans to create an "AI Force," a new government body he compared to the Space Force, and said he will soon name an "AI czar" to lead it. The move stands in stark contrast to recent calls from AI industry leaders to slow the pace of development, positioning the administration instead as a champion of rapid, unhindered growth in the sector.

Trump made the announcement via a Truth Social post that offered no concrete detail on what the new agency would actually do, though he pledged the government would "cherish it, help it, and watch over it" rather than restrict the industry. He also floated rebranding the term "artificial intelligence" itself, polling followers on alternatives such as "extreme intelligence" or "supreme intelligence." The announcement follows a proposal from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to curb AI's pace of development, which was echoed by leaders at OpenAI and xAI, but Trump argued that slowing US progress would let China gain ground, a message he is expected to reinforce when he meets his Chinese counterpart the following week.