Vice chair of President Donald Trump's newly created Super Intelligence Task Force, Scott Kupor, outlined his vision for federal AI oversight ahead of a reported meeting this week.
That vision includes a notification program for when things go wrong, bringing critical infrastructure, from financial services to energy, into the loop, as well as a new set of laws focused on private liability, Kupor said Monday morning on CNBC's Squawk Box.
The task force was formed on Oct. 4 as the Trump administration has pushed for advancing AI development in a race to get ahead of China, as significant concerns loom over safety as models become more sophisticated and powerful.
AI regulation has come into the spotlight over the past few months amid a series of hacks and concerns that models can get out of companies' control. In September, Jacob Coxon, a researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic and publicly accused the companies of moving too quickly toward AI, saying that they were "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."
Since OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have supported calls for stronger safeguards and a slower pace of development, arguing that governments and companies need to address potential risks as AI capabilities advance further.
People will have "different motivations" behind regulating AI, Kupor said.
"Different players in this area have different views on it," Kupor said on CNBC. "Part of our job ... is we've got to coalesce those views and make sure we have a plan that protects the American people."
Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order renaming AI as "super intelligence," or SI. A few days later, Trump said he created a task force that would be tasked with coordinating the federal government's AI-related engagement with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers, and AI companies.
The team is led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. Clayton was also previously the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Four members of the task force are expected to meet on Thursday, when they could release a plan for overseeing AI, according to reporting from Reuters.