Trump’s new superintelligence czar: Here’s who is in the running to lead new AI Force

America is getting a czar. Not for energy, not for the border, not for the price of eggs — for superintelligence. The New York Post reports the White House AI post is being filled, and that whoever lands it will lead something called an 'AI Force', which reads less like a federal body and more like a Marvel spin-off that got greenlit by accident. Sriram Krishnan is reportedly in the mix. Somewhere, a confirmation hearing is already workshopping its opening joke.

The timing, per the Post, is a chef's kiss. OpenAI and Anthropic have been calling for greater government intervention — a line they were rehearsing while building a regulator with no government in it. Nothing says 'please regulate us' like writing the rules yourself, staffing the body with people who already agree with you, and then asking Congress to ratify the paperwork. Meanwhile Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal are pushing an 'Artificial Intelligence Risk Evaluation Act', because the finest way to evaluate a risk is to hand the people generating it a comfortable chair and a long timetable.

A czar is the honest bit. Britain burned through levelling-up czars, vaccine czars and cost-of-living czars; Washington now wants a superintelligence czar, which is roughly one syllable from admitting the thing is the boss. The 'AI Force' will produce strategy documents with arrows on them, some pointing at the frontier labs drafting the standards, others at the senators drafting the statute — everyone regulating everyone, nobody actually regulated. The Post frames the whole thing as a race to fill a chair, and the chair gets to decide what counts as superintelligence in the first place, which is a lovely bit of delegation. So: a new office, an acronym, a bill with 'Risk Evaluation' in the title, and two labs politely demanding to be told what to do. Everyone involved will call this governance.