Anthropic CEO and Musk urge AI development slowdown
President Trump on Monday pushed back on the need for tighter federal regulation of artificial intelligence, even as industry leaders sound urgent warnings about the risks the technology could create.
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China.”
Trump told reporters Sunday while traveling in Ireland that he sees other motivations behind the guardrail debate. “We can put up guardrails, and we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up,” Trump said. “And they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.” Trump has also said he uses AI but declined to provide further details.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, whom Trump also mentioned in his social-media post, has been among the leading voices calling for the AI industry to slow development of advanced systems. In a post to his personal blog, Amodei called for the industry to pace development of cutting-edge tools, suggesting new measures including more global coordination among democratic countries and the introduction of embedded third-party safety evaluators.
“I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that time to advance alignment, we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong,” Amodei wrote.
According to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported Trump’s social-media post, the president’s position on additional federal oversight of AI comes as executives, including his ally Elon Musk, call for the industry to slow down advancements of the technology out of concern for the risks it could create. The post is the latest instance of Trump publicly playing down the need for extensive oversight onto AI, the Journal reported.