Trump announces AI Force

President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was creating a new AI Force to watch over AI development, one week after AI leaders called for government regulation.

Trump rejects slowdown calls

Trump said he would not heed AI leaders' calls to slow development. We will not in any way hinder or stifle the growth of this incredible industry, he said.

“We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry.”

Trump names AI Czar

Trump said he would soon announce a new AI Czar but offered no further details about the AI Force in his social media post on Truth Social.

Amodei's three-part plan

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed slowing AI development until safeguards ensure AI remains under human control. His plan included calls for the US government to regulate frontier AI labs for antitrust reasons.

Tech leaders split on regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk backed Amodei's plan. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and presidential advisor David Sacks said regulation would disadvantage the US against China.

Trump sees AI as economic driver

Trump said AI could be as much as twenty five percent of the country's GDP and that he intends to keep the US leading China and the rest of the world.

“AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country's GDP.”