Key facts
- Attorney General Todd Blanche said the DOJ would prosecute individuals whose use of super intelligence violates the law.
- Blanche said the task force would work alongside SI Force Chair Jay Clayton.
- Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss said the department has a responsibility to harden reporting on SI risk.
- The DOJ did not specify a timeline or how the task force would coordinate with other agencies.
The US Department of Justice said on November 5, 2026, that it is setting up a task force dedicated to policing misuse of advanced artificial intelligence. The Super Intelligence Task Force, or DOJ-SITF, will be led by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss.
The department said the unit's mission is to keep American leadership in super intelligence from being compromised by foreign governments and their proxies, transnational criminal organizations, or companies and individuals using AI to commit fraud or other crimes. It invoked President Donald Trump's framing that "America stands at the forefront of a new technological revolution in intelligence."
Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement that SI development "will continue to be powered by American innovators" and that the task force would work alongside SI Force Chair Jay Clayton to keep critical AI technologies from being "manipulated by bad actors at home or abroad." Blanche said the DOJ would keep "identifying and prosecuting individuals whose use of SI violates the law, including by maliciously targeting American taxpayers, critical U.S. infrastructure, or other aspects of our national security."
Weiss said the department also has "a responsibility" to "harden regular reporting on SI risk and response, and ensure companies exercise vigorous internal controls so that SI technology behaves as intended." The DOJ did not specify a timeline or detail how the task force would coordinate with other agencies, saying only that its work would "promote innovation and prevent the misuse" of the technology.
The announcement joins other federal AI measures. Trump signed an executive order setting up a dispute with states over AI regulation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued its first AI framework earlier in the week of November 2, 2026, as banks address rogue agents reaching into customer accounts. The SEC recently added super intelligence to its 2027 examination priorities.