{"slug": "trump-dismisses-ai-fears-amid-china-race", "title": "Trump dismisses AI fears amid China race", "summary": "U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence risks during a visit to Ireland, saying \"We're leading China on AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.\" Trump's remarks followed calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow AI development \"to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong,\" which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI owner Elon Musk backed, while Democratic Representative Lori Trahan urged Congress to act and technology investor David Sacks told AI companies to pace frontier research themselves.", "body_md": "# Trump dismisses AI fears amid China race\n\nU.S. President [Donald Trump](https://qazinform.com/search_results?q=trump) has dismissed growing warnings about the risks posed by artificial intelligence, stressing that Washington must retain its technological lead over China, reports a [Qazinform](https://qazinform.com/) News Agency correspondent.\n\n```\n“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 during a visit to Ireland.\n“We’re leading China on AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins,” he added.\n```\n\nHis remarks followed calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow AI development “to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI owner Elon Musk backed the warning.\n\nDavid Sacks, a technology investor serving on Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, urged AI companies to act independently.\n\n```\n“Stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission,” he wrote on X, calling on developers to pace frontier research themselves.\n```\n\nMeanwhile, Democratic Representative Lori Trahan called for congressional action.\n\n```\n“Safety researchers are resigning, powerful AI models are breaking out of their labs, and companies are racing ahead anyway,” she wrote on X. “It’s past time for Congress to get off the sidelines and do its job.”\n```\n\nEarlier, [Qazinform](https://qazinform.com/) News Agency [reported](https://qazinform.com/news/trump-promises-5000-dividend-if-republicans-win-midterms-f8543e) that US President [Donald Trump](https://qazinform.com/search_results?q=trump) had promised a $5,000 payment to every adult American citizen if Republicans retained control of both chambers of Congress in the November midterm elections.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-ai-fears-amid-china-race", "canonical_source": "https://qazinform.com/news/trump-dismisses-ai-fears-amid-china-race-96d296", "published_at": "2026-09-14 06:16:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 06:31:27.953622+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "China", "Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "Elon Musk", "Lori Trahan"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-ai-fears-amid-china-race", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-ai-fears-amid-china-race.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-ai-fears-amid-china-race.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-ai-fears-amid-china-race.jsonld"}}