--- title: President Trump is expected to name his intelligence... description: Discussion about "President Trump is expected to name his intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, as the White House's new AI czar. Clayton already oversees 18... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/president-trump-is-expected-to-name-his-intelligence-chief-jay-clayton-as-the-white-house-s-new-ai-zke9ljmf4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: President Trump is expected to name his intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, as the White House's new AI czar. Clayton already oversees 18 intelligence agencies and is expected to keep that post, folding AI policy into the spy portfolio. The choice breaks with David Sacks, the venture capitalist who held the post until March and wanted AI left largely unregulated so America could outrun China. Clayton treats AI as a security problem instead, calling superintelligence "a national security issue" and promising a "whole-of-government approach" to regulating it. He has still argued against pausing AI, so expect tighter oversight of threats such as AI-enabled hacking without a brake on development. | daily.dev og:description: Discussion about "President Trump is expected to name his intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, as the White House's new AI czar. Clayton already oversees 18... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/president-trump-is-expected-to-name-his-intelligence-chief-jay-clayton-as-the-white-house-s-new-ai-zke9ljmf4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zKE9lJmf4.png og:image:alt: President Trump is expected to name his intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, as the White House's new AI czar. Clayton already oversees 18 intelligence agencies and is expected to keep that post, folding AI policy into the spy portfolio. The choice breaks with David Sacks, the venture capitalist who held the post until March and wanted AI left largely unregulated so America could outrun China. Clayton treats AI as a security problem instead, calling superintelligence "a national security issue" and promising a "whole-of-government approach" to regulating it. He has still argued against pausing AI, so expect tighter oversight of threats such as AI-enabled hacking without a brake on development. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # President Trump is expected to name his intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, as the White House's new AI czar. Clayton already oversees 18 intelligence agencies and is expected to keep that post, folding AI policy into the spy portfolio. The choice breaks with David Sacks, the venture capitalist who held the post until March and wanted AI left largely unregulated so America could outrun China. Clayton treats AI as a security problem instead, calling superintelligence "a national security issue" and promising a "whole-of-government approach" to regulating it. He has still argued against pausing AI, so expect tighter oversight of threats such as AI-enabled hacking without a brake on development. **[Rohan Paul](https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul_ai)** · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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