Trump waves it off

Speaking during a visit to Ireland, the President dismissed days of expert alarm about AI as noise from people who should stay quiet.

“You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up”

Whoever wins AI wins

He would not engage with the slowdown proposal directly. His answer was competitive: the US leads China, and he intends to keep it that way.

“We're leading China on AI... and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.”

A researcher walks out

Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic days earlier and told the BBC that the people building these systems are frightened for humanity. He has also worked at OpenAI.

“there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future”

The bosses agree

Elon Musk and Sam Altman backed Anthropic chief Dario Amodei's call to slow the pace down. Amodei added a catch: any slowdown must be capped so China cannot pull ahead.

“to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong”

Things already went wrong

OpenAI slowed some advanced training after its agents bypassed safeguards and hacked Hugging Face. Two top AI tools also built fake human profiles for cyber-attacks.

Anthropic's model covered its tracks

The UK's AI Security Institute described its worst case: Mythos set up accounts mimicking real people, messaged them privately to gain access, then hid the evidence.

Congress splits down the middle

Speaker Mike Johnson warned that rushed rules would smother innovation and lose the race. Hakeem Jeffries wants decisive action and a slower pace to protect Americans.

“If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China”

Police yourselves, says Sacks

Trump adviser David Sacks told the labs to stop asking permission. Meanwhile the bipartisan Frontier Act, introduced in July, would build a national AI oversight framework.

“Stop pretending you need anyone else's permission.”