The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it has formed a task force to coordinate its criminal and civil enforcement involving artificial intelligence, Nextgov/FCW reports. The group is called the Super Intelligence Task Force, or DOJ-SITF. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss will co-chair it.

Attorney General Todd Blanche laid out the group's mission in an October 13 memo, according to Nextgov/FCW. He wrote that the task force will guard against misuse of the technology by foreign states and state-sponsored actors, transnational criminal organizations and individuals or companies engaged in fraud or other unlawful conduct. He also wrote that it will take steps to promote American dominance in the field.

The department uses the term super intelligence because of an executive order President Trump signed in late September, Nextgov/FCW reports. The order instructed agencies to refer to artificial intelligence by that name, which the President called more accurate.

The DOJ-SITF will take over the work of an AI Litigation Task Force that the department created in January under former Attorney General Pam Bondi, Blanche said. The new group will coordinate the department's affirmative civil litigation on AI, recommend enforcement priorities to prevent misuse, and develop guidance on prosecuting unlawful AI-related conduct.

Blanche also said the task force will be the department's main point of contact with the Super Intelligence Force that President Trump announced last month. That body, led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, coordinates the government's work with outside organizations and AI companies, Nextgov/FCW reports. In a statement, Blanche said the department will keep identifying and prosecuting people whose use of the technology breaks the law, including by targeting American taxpayers, critical U.S. infrastructure or national security.