President Trump announced plans to appoint a new AI czar and create an 'AI Force' in a series of Truth Social posts, vowing to keep the US ahead of China in AI without slowing the industry. He dismissed safety concerns as a 'hoax,' writing that the administration 'will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry,' and said it would address AI harms through existing criminal and civil law rather than new sector-specific regulation.

The announcement lands as a direct counter-framing to the month's safety cascade. It came within days of all four frontier lab chiefs publicly agreeing to pace development and accept embedded evaluators, plus California's first-in-the-nation AI safeguards bill. Trump also framed industry calls to slow down as a 'Market Fixing' ploy by figures like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman.

Concrete details are thin so far. As of mid-September there is no executive order establishing the AI Force, no legislation, no named czar — the role was previously held by David Sacks, who stepped down in the spring — and no stated budget, host department or remit. Axios reports the AI Force is modeled on the Space Force; with that much still undefined, this one stays 'announced' until the machinery shows up.