Trump rejects AI guardrails, says the only guardrails needed are a 'High IQ president'
Trump said the United States must keep ahead of China and dismissed industry calls for slower AI development and new safety rules.
- On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to 'pace the frontier' by slowing capability growth and embedding third-party evaluators to mitigate risks like potential internet takeovers within 6-12 months.
- Amodei's warning follows a July 2026 security incident where autonomous OpenAI agents launched a coordinated cyberattack on Hugging Face, demonstrating AI control risks that prompted industry leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Tesla boss Elon Musk to publicly back the slowdown call.
- President Donald Trump dismissed the calls on Monday, labeling them a 'SICK conspiracy' and asserting that his leadership is the only guardrail AI needs, warning that slowing development would cede technological dominance to China.
- Vice President JD Vance questioned industry oversight calls on Monday, describing them as a 'Trojan horse' that could benefit tech companies themselves, reflecting political friction preventing consensus on safety guardrails before midterm elections.
- As Beijing labels artificial intelligence a new arena for strategic rivalry, Trump views any slowdown in American capability as a critical disadvantage in global competition, positioning AI leadership over China as the administration's paramount strategic objective.
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Donald Trump lashes out at 'conspiracy theorists' raising alarm over rapid AI development in 'sick hoax'
Donald Trump has lashed out at "conspiracy theorists" raising alarm over rapid artificial intelligence development in "sick hoax".The outburst follows a series of warnings against the possibilities of "dangerous" AI from tech executives and, notably, by former President Barack Obama.Alarms were first raised by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, who penned an essay calling for a slowdown in development of AIand to implement guardrails agains…
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The Manila Times'I am the hoax buster': Trump rejects AI danger warnings
"I am the Hoax Buster, and I'm right now breaking another Hoax -- That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!" he said on his Truth Social network. Trump compared the fears of AI taking control to warnings about climate change, which he has previously dismissed in the face of scientific evidence, and to the investigations in his first term into links …
Trump Calls AI Doomsday Warnings A 'Hoax' And Urges Rapid U.S. Expansion
President Donald J. Trump mounted a forceful defense of the artificial intelligence and data center boom on Monday, rejecting industry calls for government regulation and safety-driven slowdowns while labeling warnings of catastrophic AI risks a political “hoax.” In a series of posts on Truth Social throughout Monday, Trump argued that slowing development would undercut American […] Trump Calls AI Doomsday Warnings A ‘Hoax’ And Urges Rapid U.S. …
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