Jay Clayton, the US Director of National Intelligence, labeled super intelligence a national security issue during a CNBC interview on September 30. He drew a direct parallel between the race for super intelligence and the nuclear arms race, arguing that US companies cannot afford to hit the brakes on development. His remarks came one day after a White House summit bringing together Donald Trump, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Elon Musk of xAI, where the tech CEOs signed a voluntary agreement on frontier model management. Trump also signed an executive order replacing the term artificial intelligence with super intelligence across all government communications. Clayton’s framing could translate into significant government funding and institutional backing for the AI sector.
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