{"slug": "trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-from-leading-tech-ceos", "title": "Trump dismisses calls for AI slowdown from leading tech CEOs", "summary": "US President Donald Trump dismissed calls from leading AI executives to slow artificial-intelligence development, telling reporters in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Sunday that he wants to preserve the US lead over China because \"whoever wins AI wins.\" Trump's remarks came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post urging the industry to slow capability improvements to allow time for guardrails, a position OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly endorsed. The warnings followed the resignation of ex-Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon over AI safety concerns, which prompted Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer and Republican Congressman Mike Lawler to introduce a bipartisan House bill requiring human oversight of AI.", "body_md": "# Trump dismisses calls for AI slowdown from leading tech CEOs\n\n*Trump downplays AI risks, saying he wants to maintain the US’s lead over China in the emerging technology.*\n\nUS President Donald Trump has downplayed the need for his administration to place checks on artificial intelligence development, saying he is worried about ceding the US’s lead to China.\n\nSpeaking to reporters during his trip to Ireland on Sunday, Trump also said he acknowledged the need for some regulation but did not provide further details on potential measures.\n\n“We can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of 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 told reporters after watching the Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg.\n\nHe said that with the US leading the development of AI over China, “frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins.”\n\nTrump’s comments came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post saying the AI industry must slow the pace of improving the technology’s capabilities to allow time for guardrails.\n\nOpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed with Amodei, adding that this was a primary topic of discussion at OpenAI in recent weeks. Elon Musk also publicly agreed with Amodei’s post.\n\nThe warnings follow ex-Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon’s [public resignation](/news/2026/9/10/anthropic-discloses-fourth-ai-breach-as-researcher-quits-over-safety) over concerns about AI’s potential to surpass human control, which sent ripple effects throughout the industry and Washington.\n\nMultiple US lawmakers [made calls](/economy/2026/9/11/us-legislators-push-ai-safety-laws-amid-human-extinction-warnings) for legislation to control AI development following Coxon’s resignation, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer and Republican Congressman Mike Lawler, who introduced a bipartisan House bill to prevent AI from operating without human oversight.\n\nConcerns over AI have become a major election-cycle issue amid the explosion of computing warehouses being built in numerous towns across the US. The new construction has raised alarms about diminishing water supplies and rising electricity bills.\n\nTrump has maintained support for data centres, despite their increasing unpopularity among the American public.\n\nFormer White House AI czar David Sacks, who now co-chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, challenged warnings from AI leaders, saying the industry is setting the pace for development and can slow it down independently.\n\n“Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it,” Sacks said.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-from-leading-tech-ceos", "canonical_source": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/13/trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-from-leading-tech-ceos?traffic_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-09-13 23:31:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 00:28:05.261663+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "Dario Amodei", "Anthropic", "Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "Elon Musk", "Jacob Coxon", "David Sacks"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-from-leading-tech-ceos", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-from-leading-tech-ceos.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-from-leading-tech-ceos.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-from-leading-tech-ceos.jsonld"}}