Justice Department Creates 'Super Intelligence' Task Force to Coordinate AI Enforcement

The Justice Department said Thursday it has launched a new Super Intelligence Task Force to coordinate criminal and civil enforcement work across the department involving advanced AI-related matters, formally tying DOJ’s efforts to the White House’s broader “Super Intelligence” initiative.

In a Nov. 5 press release, DOJ announced the Department of Justice Super Intelligence Task Force, or DOJ-SITF. According to a two-page internal memorandum dated Oct. 13, the new body is responsible for organizing the department’s law enforcement efforts involving super intelligence, deconflicting investigations and cases across DOJ offices, recommending enforcement priorities aimed at public safety and misuse prevention, and serving as the department’s main point of contact with the White House Super Intelligence Force and other agencies. The memo also says the task force will coordinate affirmative civil litigation involving SI and develop guidance on prosecution of unlawful SI-related conduct and on compliance evaluation.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said in the release that the task force “will facilitate our partnership with SI Force Chair Jay Clayton as we ensure critical SI technologies serve the American people and are not manipulated by bad actors at home or abroad.”

The directive also reshapes DOJ’s existing AI governance structure. The Oct. 13 memo formally establishes DOJ-SITF and states that the department’s earlier Artificial Intelligence Task Force, announced Jan. 9, “shall cease to operate as a separate body” and is merged into the new task force. The department’s public announcement likewise adopts the Trump administration’s preferred term “Super Intelligence,” rather than “Artificial Intelligence.”

The task force will be co-chaired by Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss. The memo says it will include representatives from the Antitrust Division, Civil Division, Criminal Division, FBI, National Fraud Enforcement Division, National Security Division, Office of the Solicitor General and the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, along with other components designated by the co-chairs or department leadership.

The move fits into a broader White House policy shift announced in late September. Executive Order 14434, “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,” directed executive agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” terminology in place of “AI.” The White House has also announced a separate White House Super Intelligence Force, chaired by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. DOJ’s new task force is positioned as the department’s enforcement-focused counterpart and liaison to that interagency effort.

The memo makes clear, however, that the new body is a management and coordination mechanism inside DOJ, not a new source of legal authority. It says the directive is “intended to improve the internal management of the Department” and “does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States.”

Publicly released DOJ materials do not provide a full named membership list beyond the two co-chairs. They also do not announce a separate budget or appropriation for the task force.