Trump and JD Vance Completely Shut Down Calls for AI Guardrails

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance rejected calls from AI industry leaders for government guardrails, after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry on Sunday to slow its work and more than 1,000 AI company employees called for increased regulation. Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday that "the only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," while Vance told reporters the industry's lobbying for regulation "feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse.

Industry leaders in artificial intelligence are sounding the alarm over the catastrophic risks of unchecked progress—but President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance insist that everything is fine. On Sunday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to reduce the speed of its work, following insiders’ concerns https://newrepublic.com/post/215206/anthropic-insiders-admit-ai-kill-all-humans that the race to develop self-improving superintelligence could cause a mass extinction event. More than 1,000 employees of AI companies have called for https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/ increased government regulation. Unfortunately, the Trump administration has bet big https://x.com/SteveRattner/status/2095564701878845900?s=20 on data centers https://newrepublic.com/article/214982/vineland-new-jersey-data-center-next-door to drive the president’s so-called “Golden Age” of industry. Plus, the president clearly gets a kick out of posting AI slop https://newrepublic.com/post/215155/donald-trump-labor-day-ai-video . “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 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117269745153543631 on Truth Social Monday morning. “The Trump Administration has stopped AI ‘people’ from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things,’ like Dario Anthropic , who is now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’—and we will continue to do so ” Trump claimed there was a sick “conspiracy” against AI and data centers—even though the warnings were coming from within the industry itself—and implied that only China stood to benefit from a slowdown. “Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE ” he added. Vance, whose rise to power was bankrolled https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/ by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel and his network of tech billionaires https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html in Silicon Valley, also came out against the industry’s request for more guardrails. “I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the company, and begging the government to regulate them,” Vance told https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2099506256117428490?s=20 reporters Monday. “It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse. So I think we just have to be careful about this.” The vice president’s comment suggests he is concerned that large firms hope to extract favorable terms over their competitors.