Trump Administration Moves NIST AI Testing Officials to White House

The Trump administration is reportedly moving three senior officials from the federal government's AI testing agency to the White House, according to The Information, centralizing oversight of frontier artificial intelligence models under newly appointed AI czar Jay Clayton. The Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), a unit within the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been conducting critical pre-deployment safety evaluations of cutting-edge AI systems. The reorganization consolidates AI governance under Clayton, Director of National Intelligence, who heads the newly created "Super Intelligence Force" task force launched in early October 2026.