What changed
On October 4, President Trump announced a new Super Intelligence Force led by Jay Clayton, the Director of National Intelligence. The task force includes the head of the Federal Trade Commission, the Pentagon's technology chief, and the director of the Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal workforce. They report directly to Trump and his chief of staff. The group has 120 days to deliver a report on AI risks and opportunities and to recommend what role the government should play. Clayton told the Wall Street Journal that not being first in AI is the bigger risk, and he has already said he opposes slowing down AI development at U.S. companies.
What you can do with it this week
The task force is talking to AI companies, infrastructure providers, and religious organizations. If your business depends on tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, pay attention to what happens in the next four months. Check whether the companies you use are changing their terms. If a rule requires them to log how you use their tools, or to report certain types of requests, you will want to know before you paste in something you would rather not share. Set a reminder for late January to search for any updates on this task force's report. That is when you will know whether new rules are coming that affect your subscription price, your data, or which features stay available. For now, keep using what works. Just stay awake to what is being decided while you do.
What to keep in your own hands
Whatever rules this task force recommends, make sure you can walk away from any AI tool you depend on. Do not build your entire customer intake process, your proposal system, or your scheduling around a single AI service unless you have a manual backup or a second option you have already tested. If new regulations force your AI tool to raise prices or restrict certain uses, the companies will comply and you will get an email. By the time that email arrives, it is too late to find a replacement without scrambling. Try at least two tools for any task that matters to your business. Know which one you would switch to and keep a file of examples that show how you want the work done, so you can move fast if you need to. And if your team is only now trying AI for the first time, this is actually good timing: whatever rules land in February will be the rules you learn to work with from the start. The teams that will struggle are the ones who built everything around one tool and assumed it would never change.