# Trump Rejects Calls for AI Guardrails, Blasts Anthropic’s Amodei > Source: > Published: 2026-09-14 14:08:08+00:00 (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump dismissed calls for artificial intelligence guardrails and slammed Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging a slowdown in the technology's development. Most Read from Bloomberg In a Monday social media post, Trump blamed a "SICK conspiracy" for voter backlash on AI data centers and increased concern about frontier models and added that "the only one that is happy about it is China." "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 posted. "We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!" Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek ©2026 Bloomberg L.P.