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Trump rejects AI guardrails, says the only guardrails needed are a 'High IQ president'

  • On Monday, President Donald Trump rejected calls for new AI regulation, dismissing industry-led efforts as a "SICK conspiracy" and asserting his own leadership provides sufficient oversight for the technology.
  • Following recent fears of rogue AI agents, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay Saturday urging slower development and independent safety checks, echoed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
  • Trump targeted Amodei, labeling him a "perfect little angel" while claiming the administration wields "tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power" to prevent firms from performing "bad, or potentially bad" actions.
  • Vice President JD Vance echoed skepticism Monday, questioning whether tech firms' calls for regulation act as a "Trojan horse" to benefit established companies, while market analysts noted tech stocks slipped.
  • Beijing officials disparaged the warnings as "fearmongering" from a "Cold War playbook," as the administration maintains that outpacing China in AI remains a critical national security and economic imperative.
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Artificial intelligence is facing a “devil conspiracy,” US President Donald Trump wrote on his social media account Truth Social on Monday, after executives at companies focused on developing the technology called for its development to be slowed down on security grounds, sending stocks plunging. But Trump said the only safeguard needed to prevent AI from going wild is himself.

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US President Donald Trump is convinced that additional oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) developments in the United States is not needed. “The only oversight or safeguards needed in AI is a strong, intelligent president – with a high IQ, and the United States has plenty of those!” the American leader wrote on Truth Social. “The Trump administration has prevented AI developers from doing bad or potentially bad things, like Dario Amodei of…

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TRT World broke the news in Istanbul, Türkiye on Saturday, September 12, 2026.
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