BGF–AIWS supports President Trump’s AI Force — and proposes a constitutional framework for its mission.
America should move rapidly in AI. The greater its technological power becomes, however, the stronger its architecture of trust, human authority, and verifiable responsibility must be.
On September 19, President Donald Trump announced plans to establish an “AI Force” and appoint an “AI czar” to coordinate the United States’ approach to artificial intelligence. He also rejected calls for broad constraints that could slow American innovation and weaken the nation’s position in its strategic competition with China. Details concerning the new institution’s mandate, authority, structure, and oversight have not yet been released.
The Boston Global Forum and AIWS support President Trump’s decision to create an AI Force. AI is becoming a foundational source of economic strength, scientific discovery, national security, and geopolitical influence. The United States must develop AI rapidly, invest in chips, computing, energy, research, and human talent, and preserve its leadership in the global competition.
But speed and trust must advance together.
Because the operating mechanism of the AI Force has not yet been defined, BGF–AIWS proposes that it be built upon the constitutional and institutional principles developed through the Boston Declaration of July 4, 2026, the AIWS Trust Order, the AIWS Trust Infrastructure, and the Beacon Papers.
The AI Force should include:
- A legitimate constitutional mandate and clearly bounded authority — where its authority comes from, and how that authority is limited and technically enforced. (Beacon Papers No. 11, No Power Without a Mandate; No. 12, The AI Race Needs a Trust Order.)
- A Frontier Capability Registry for consequential AI systems, so that a government knows what exists before it is deployed. (No. 12.)
- Independent evaluation and continuous verification — “Those who would ask for trust must first earn it, and stand ready to be measured” (Boston Declaration, Principle IX) — delivered through the four mechanisms of the Tokyo Compact and AIWS Trust Standards v1.0, with four-tier certification and the Automated Trust Monitor.
- Constitutional Identity and Proof of Answerability, with a Designated Human Answerer named before deployment who holds authority to halt and revoke. (Beacon Papers No. 10, No AI Agent Without Identity.)
- Human-in-Command for decisions with severe, systemic, or irreversible consequences. (Beacon Papers No. 5, Who May Command?)
- Mandatory disclosure through an AI Incident Exchange, so that one institution’s failure becomes everyone’s early warning. (No. 12.)
- Emergency protocols for frontier AI, cyber, biological, infrastructure, and national-security risks, deciding in advance who may stop what. (No. 12.)
- Oversight by lawful institutions, independent experts, and the public — the Boston Declaration’s third principle holds that human beings must retain “the right to understand, to refuse, and to intervene,” and against a state instrument those three rights are exercised through published oversight or not at all.
These safeguards should not become barriers to innovation. Properly designed, they will strengthen innovation by creating confidence among citizens, companies, investors, allies, and international partners.
BGF–AIWS therefore supports both central elements of President Trump’s position: America should establish a national AI Force, and America should move quickly to develop AI. At the same time, no consequential AI power — whether exercised by a company, an AI agent, or the government itself — should operate without legitimate authority, constitutional limits, and verifiable responsibility.
Capability is not authority. National leadership is not a license for unaccountable power.
Nor is this a cost imposed on American speed. America does not win this race by coming to resemble its competitor; it wins as the nation whose systems other nations are willing to trust. That trust is the one advantage a closed system cannot copy.
The Boston Declaration was proclaimed on the Fourth of July, and it sets the measure for everything built since: “Artificial Intelligence may surpass human intelligence in many domains. It must never surpass the primacy of the human person.”
An AI Force built on these principles could become more than an instrument of technological competition. It could demonstrate that the United States can lead the Age of Artificial Intelligence by advancing innovation, freedom, security, human dignity, and constitutional responsibility together.
Move fast in innovation. Lead first in trust.
