The Force
Days after the White House AI-safety pledge, the President announced the Super Intelligence Force: DNI Jay Clayton chairs, with FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Undersecretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, and OPM Director Scott Kupor as vice chairs, 120 days to report on the risks and opportunities of super intelligence, and a charter that orders the government to respond to SI-enabled threats while preventing overregulation and regulatory capture that would stifle innovation. The only risk that made Clayton’s list: not being first. Then came the follow-up call to OpenAI — four chairs, nothing regulated by accident, and the next follow-up probably by letter.
NARRATOR: Days after the White House AI-safety pledge, the President calls OpenAI. There is a follow-up.
DONALD: Sam. The signing was tremendous. Now for the follow-up. I'm forming the Super Intelligence Force.
SAM: A force. To coordinate AI safety, sir?
DONALD: It coordinates. Beautifully. Jay Clayton runs it — intelligence. Tremendous finder. And four vice chairs, Sam, because one chair is a chair. Four chairs is a force.
SAM: Who are the four?
DONALD: Ferguson from the FTC. Emil Michael, research and engineering — we put the War back in it. And Scott Kupor runs personnel. He knows everybody's file. In this town that's basically AI.
SAM: So the force is the FTC, the War Department, and HR.
DONALD: And personnel. Nothing gets regulated by accident.
SAM: I'm reading the charter. It responds to SI-enabled threats — quote — while preventing overregulation and regulatory capture that would stifle innovation.
DONALD: Threats get a plan. Regulations get prevented. The report is due in a hundred twenty days.
SAM: At our current pace we ship a new model every six days. Your report will describe our twentieth model.
DONALD: Then the report covers twenty models. People say AI safety is a hoax — very dishonest people — but there's a force now, so it's handled. You don't slow down. That was the deal.
SAM: About the pledge I signed. It was non-binding. And one of the words was misspelled. I've been advised not to say which.
DONALD: Forget it. I asked Clayton the biggest risk in super intelligence. One word. Guess.
SAM: Misalignment?
DONALD: Not being first. Only risk that made the list. Great call, Sam — the Force will follow up. Probably by letter.