The facts
President Donald Trump announced the formation of a "Super Intelligence Force" tasked with maintaining US international leadership in artificial intelligence (AI). Jay Clayton, designated as the White House AI czar, will lead the initiative. Trump compared AI's potential impact to the Industrial Revolution and the internet. The task force's reported charter emphasizes preventing "overregulation and regulatory capture" while addressing risks, including those to biosecurity and water supply. It will coordinate government efforts across agencies like the Pentagon, Justice Department, and Homeland Security. The group is also expected to consider requiring AI labs to notify the government of "breaches, hacks and jailbreaks." The task force has 120 days to report on AI risks, civil liberties, cybersecurity, and the impact of potential overregulation. Critics, including Democratic representatives Lori Trahan and Josh Gottheimer, expressed skepticism, with Trahan calling it a delay tactic and Gottheimer questioning if it was a genuine effort or a PR move to protect family investments.
Our take
Well, fuck. The world is about to be unmade by a paperclip-maximizing god, and the United States has decided its first line of defense is a fucking securities lawyer who made his bones greasing the wheels for Wall Street cunts. Jay Clayton, the new AI Czar, is a man whose entire professional purpose has been to ensure the regulatory landscape is as smooth and frictionless as a lobbyist's bald head for his billionaire clients. And now this prick is in charge of the “Super Intelligence Force.” It’s like putting a arsonist in charge of the fire department, but only if the arsonist’s sole qualification was previously selling insurance to other arsonists. The name alone is a joke that fucking laughs at itself - a “Super Intelligence” force led by a guy whose crowning technological achievement is probably figuring out how to mute himself on a Zoom call. The charter is a masterpiece of cowardly, profit-protecting bullshit. Its top priority is preventing “overregulation and regulatory capture.” In the plain fucking English that these assholes avoid, that means: Please, do not stop our donor buddies from doing whatever the fuck they want, even if it unleashes a bio-plague or turns the water supply into sentient sludge. They’ll “consider” requiring labs to report breaches and jailbreaks. CONSIDER. They’re over here pondering whether we should be told if a murder-bot goes rogue, while they’ll be absolutely decisive in making sure no pesky public safety rule gets in the way of a quarterly earnings report. This is a 120-day delay tactic wrapped in a PR stunt, stuffed inside a hollow suit. It’s a four-month window for the grift to continue uninterrupted, a conference room circle-jerk where the only thing being coordinated is the cover story. They’re not assessing risks to civil liberties; they’re calculating the risk to their investment portfolios. The whole operation is a bureaucratic handjob, a transparent as fuck signal to every tech bro shithead that the coast is clear to keep pumping out unstable, world-ending code as long as the checks clear. The only intelligence at work here is the cynical kind, and it’s fucking super. God help us all, because Clayton’s task force sure as shit won’t.
