US Justice Department forms Super Intelligence Task Force on AI misuse
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The US Department of Justice announced a task force to guard against misuse of AI by foreign states, criminal groups and others engaged in fraud or other unlawful conduct. It will also work with a separate White House-announced group led by Jay Clayton.
The US Department of Justice announced on a Thursday that it has formed an artificial intelligence task force meant to protect the department against malicious AI actors. Called the Super Intelligence Task Force, or DOJ-SITF, it will be co-chaired by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss, according to Nextgov.
In an Oct. 13 memo, Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote that the group will work to ensure American leadership in AI is not compromised by misuse by foreign state and state-sponsored actors, transnational criminal organizations, and individuals or companies engaged in fraud or other unlawful conduct. He added that it will also take steps, as appropriate, to promote American dominance in the field.
The task force will take in the work of the AI Litigation Task Force, which the department set up in January under former Attorney General Pam Bondi. It will coordinate the department's affirmative civil litigation related to AI and organize its criminal and civil enforcement efforts involving AI. It will also recommend enforcement priorities and develop guidance on prosecuting unlawful AI-related conduct.
Blanche said the new group will be the department's main point of contact with the Super Intelligence Force announced by President Donald Trump last month. That body is led by National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton and coordinates the government's engagement with organizations and AI companies.
The use of the term "super intelligence" follows a late-September executive order from Trump telling agencies to use it in place of artificial intelligence. The article notes that the term already had a separate, established meaning.
