# Jay Clayton
**Entity class:** Person
**Domain:** Artificial intelligence / technological transformation
**Maturity:** Developing
## Overview
**Jay Clayton** is United States official quoted at the White House Super Intelligence gathering on the national-security importance of American AI leadership. This node preserves the person’s propositions in context and routes them into the technical, economic, and social concepts they illuminate.
## Knowledge-Graph Role
The quotations below are not treated as detachable celebrity remarks. Each is connected to the mechanism it describes, the source in which it appeared, and the broader ontology required to evaluate its implications.
## Relationships
- [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]]
- [[wiki/AI Economy|AI Economy]]
- [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]
## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts
> "The consensus today around that national security issue was [that] being a leader in America in AI is the most important thing for national security."
> **— Jay Clayton**, *White House Super Intelligence gathering, September 2026*
[[reminders/AI Superpower/American AI Leadership Is the Most Important National-Security Priority by Jay Clayton|American AI Leadership Is the Most Important National-Security Priority by Jay Clayton]]