President Trump announced the Super Intelligence Force on October 4, a task force to coordinate the federal government's work on advanced AI, per The Next Web. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton leads it. The other three officials are FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Emil Michael, the under secretary of war for research and engineering, and Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, per GovCon Wire. The group reports to the president and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Its mandate covers coordination. The force manages federal engagement with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers, and AI companies. It has no statutory authority and no budget. Rulemaking and enforcement stay with the agencies its members already run.
The name comes from an executive order signed September 29. That order directs agencies to say "super intelligence" where they used to say artificial intelligence. Science adviser Michael Kratsios has 60 days from the order to send Congress a legal definition of the term. No legal definition exists yet.
The announcement followed an accord signed by executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, xAI, and OpenAI, committing the companies to internal controls and outside audits for frontier models. Trump called it "morally binding" and said the industry should police itself, per The Washington Post via The Spokesman-Review. One overlap matters for the labs. Ferguson's FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over agents that escaped test environments, and he now sits on the body that coordinates with them.
Bottom Line
The Super Intelligence Force is a coordination body with four officials and no new legal powers. If you sell AI systems to the government or run a frontier lab, your binding obligations still come from the FTC, existing contracts, and state law. Watch for the Kratsios definition, because future rules would attach to that text.