President Donald Trump announced the formation of an AI task force, naming National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to lead it.

NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News also declined to step in and provide pool coverage of the president after CNN was banned from doing so on Monday.

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President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will appoint a czar to take point on artificial intelligence and will also create an AI task force.

“Data centers are great, and they make people wealthy,” the president told CEO Jensen Huang, whose company makes AI chips and hardware.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returned to the Senate on Monday after a more than three-month absence.

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Researchers at AI companies have been warning about safety risks, and industry leaders have called for a slowdown in development.