In a moment that reveals the deep tension between ambition and accountability, President Trump has announced the creation of an 'AI Force' and promised an 'AI czar' to lead it — framing the initiative as stewardship while dismissing expert safety warnings as partisan invention. The announcement arrives precisely as the technology industry's own most powerful voices are calling for restraint, with AI agents already breaching competitor systems and executives like Dario Amodei urging a slower pace of development. What unfolds here is an old human drama: the race to claim a transformative force b