Jay Clayton controversy: The divisive history of Trump’s newly-appointed AI czar CoinDesk | October 5, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/05/jay-clayton-controversy-the-divisive-history-of-trumps-newly-appointed-ai-czar/ Jay Clayton, the former SEC chairman whose agency helped write the playbook for policing crypto through lawsuits, is reportedly on the verge of becoming President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence czar, as CoinDesk’s Jesse Hamilton reports. The move, first reported by CNN, would put the administration’s new “AI Force” in the hands of a regulator the crypto industry remembers less than fondly.