Vance fires back after AI honchos demand to ‘slow the pace’ of tech development: ‘Bit of a Trojan horse’

Vice President JD Vance said Monday that frontier AI companies asking the government to regulate them is "a bit of a Trojan horse," after Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk called for greater government oversight and slower development of AI. President Trump backed Vance's stance on Truth Social, writing that "the only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," and warning of a "SICK conspiracy" against AI and data centers that he said only China benefits from. The pushback follows an Anthropic researchers' warning that the technology could kill all of humanity by 2030.

Vance fires back after AI honchos demand to ‘slow the pace’ of tech development: ‘Bit of a Trojan horse’ See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=nypost.com WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance expressed skepticism Monday about tech leaders requesting the government to step in and regulate the artificial intelligence industry https://nypost.com/2026/09/12/us-news/ai-ceos-demand-the-industry-slow-the-pace-of-advancements/ , calling it “a bit of a Trojan horse.” Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have called for greater government oversight of AI and for the development of the new technology to happen slower. “I have to say, just personally, I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse,” Vance told reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for events in the Kansas City area. President Trump appeared to agree https://nypost.com/2026/09/13/tech/trump-brushes-off-ai-doom-predictions-says-us-must-push-ahead/ , saying Monday he would serve as a sufficient enough guardrail against any AI that goes rogue. “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 ,” he wrote on Truth Social. The president has repeatedly framed the AI issue as a global race to be the leader in the field, claiming there was a “sick conspiracy” against technological advances and data centers, possibly influenced by China. “We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE ,” he said. Concerns about AI have grown after Anthropic researchers warned the emerging technology could kill all of humanity by 2030.