Trump downplays need for guardrails on artificial intelligence

President Trump downplayed the need for regulatory guardrails on artificial intelligence in a social media post, saying a "high IQ" president is enough to oversee it, according to NBC News reporting by Gabe Gutierrez and Jonathan Allen on Sept. 14, 2026. The remarks come as lawmakers face calls to get involved in AI regulation, with Speaker Johnson calling for AI "guardrails" but declining to set a pre-election timetable and Pete Buttigieg calling it "deeply dangerous" for Congress to "sit on its hands" over AI regulation.

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