{"slug": "trump-appears-to-resist-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-very-negative-forces-raising", "title": "Trump Appears To Resist Calls For AI Slowdown, Says “Very Negative Forces” Raising Concerns", "summary": "US President Donald Trump pushed back on calls to slow or more heavily regulate artificial intelligence, telling reporters at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland on Sunday that \"very negative forces\" are stoking fears about the technology that won't materialize. Trump said \"We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins,\" while allowing that \"we could put guardrails\" but undercutting the idea. The remarks came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled \"We Must Pace the Frontier\" calling for the industry to deliberately slow capability improvements, a position OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk both said they agreed with.", "body_md": "There’s a major discordant voice among all the calls around caution on AI.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has pushed back on the growing calls to slow down or more heavily regulate artificial intelligence, saying that a lot of “very negative forces” are stoking fears about the technology that won’t materialize.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland on Sunday, Trump was asked whether the AI industry should slow down or face tighter regulation. His answer left little doubt about where he stands. “We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins,” he said.\n\nHe did leave the door open to some form of oversight, but immediately undercut it. “We could put guardrails. We can do this and that. But I think you have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen,” Trump said.\n\nThe comments land at the end of a turbulent week for AI safety discourse in the US. It began when [Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and published a viral thread](https://officechai.com/ai/anthropic-researcher-jacob-coxon-quits-says-people-building-ai-believe-it-could-kill-all-humans-by-end-of-decade/) arguing that the people building frontier AI privately believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. The post raked in tens of millions of views within hours, and Anthropic’s own alignment lead, Evan Hubinger, publicly said he agreed, putting the odds above 10 percent within ten years.\n\nThe virality of Coxon’s warning triggered a fierce backlash from prominent voices in the industry who cast doubt on its authenticity. On the All-In podcast, [former White House AI czar David Sacks argued the episode looked like a coordinated “psyop” rather than an organic moment, while co-host David Friedberg compared the doomer movement’s use of fear to that of religious institutions](https://officechai.com/ai/david-sacks-says-anthropic-quitter-jacob-coxons-virality-was-a-psyopfriedberg-says-ai-doomers-are-using-fear-like-religious-institutions/). Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar went further still, [comparing EA-flavored AI safetyism to Marxism-Leninism, arguing that both ask a small enlightened few to constrain everyone else “for their own good.”](https://officechai.com/ai/ea-ai-safetyism-increasingly-looks-like-marxism-leninism-palantir-cto-shyam-sankar/)\n\nThen, just a day before Trump’s remarks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay called “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calling on the industry to deliberately slow the rate at which it improves model capabilities. Amodei’s [three-step framework calls for embedding independent evaluators with employee-like access inside AI labs, coordination among frontier companies on safety standards, and eventual international cooperation to manage AI risks](https://officechai.com/ai/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-development-must-slow-down-to-pace-the-frontier/). He was careful to frame this as pacing rather than a halt, pointing to recursive self-improvement and a recent OpenAI-Hugging Face security incident as evidence that safety work is being outrun by capability gains. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk both quickly [said](https://officechai.com/ai/sam-altman-elon-musk-agree-with-dario-amodeis-call-to-slow-down-ai-progress/) they agreed with him.\n\nThat such an appeal came from the head of a company that has spent two years racing to ship ever more capable models made it hard to dismiss, and it appeared to reset at least part of the conversation happening in Washington. Trump’s comments on Sunday suggest that reset hasn’t reached the White House. His administration has, throughout his second term, largely embraced AI firms and sought to keep regulation light, even as the Pentagon earlier this year flagged risks tied to Anthropic’s models.\n\nFor now, the fault line looks less like a debate between the AI industry and the White House, and more like one running straight through the industry itself, with a president firmly on the side that wants the foot kept on the accelerator.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-appears-to-resist-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-very-negative-forces-raising", "canonical_source": "https://officechai.com/ai/trump-appears-to-resist-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-very-negative-forces-raising-concerns/", "published_at": "2026-09-13 18:16:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-13 18:20:49.906175+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "Dario Amodei", "Anthropic", "Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "Elon Musk", "xAI", "Jacob Coxon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-appears-to-resist-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-very-negative-forces-raising", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-appears-to-resist-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-very-negative-forces-raising.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-appears-to-resist-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-very-negative-forces-raising.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-appears-to-resist-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-very-negative-forces-raising.jsonld"}}