From CNBC · Kevin Breuninger,CJ Haddad · · 1m 50s
Trump calls AI doom a hoax
As tech CEOs beg for a slowdown, the president spent a Monday online calling the whole thing a scam.
In brief
As tech CEOs beg for a slowdown, the president spent a Monday online calling the whole thing a scam. The AI safety debate has split the industry from the White House, and with Congress out until November, nothing gets regulated before the midterms. Originally reported by CNBC.
Five posts in one day
Trump spent Monday on Truth Social attacking calls to regulate AI, the backlash to data centers, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei by name.
The climate comparison
His framing: the people warning about AI are the same crowd who warned about climate change, and both are selling fear.
“The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said...”
Self-appointed hoax buster
Trump gave himself a title, saying he was breaking the hoax that AI will take over and robots will march into American cities.
“I'm right now breaking another Hoax”
Amodei asked for brakes
On Saturday, Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing for slower model development to cut the risk that something goes seriously wrong.
“reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong”
A researcher walked out
Days before, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and warned the technology could kill us all by the end of the decade, accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of gambling with lives.
“gambling with our lives”
Altman and Musk agreed
Both backed the slowdown calls over the weekend. Altman reportedly met Trump backstage at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday.
It's really about China
The administration's whole case rests on the race. Trump says the US leads, wants to keep it that way, and calls the pushback a gift to Beijing.
“WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!”
The White House pushes back
AI czar David Sacks told companies to pace themselves voluntarily, argued liability exposure already disciplines them, and said China would never sign a global deal.
“Stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic.”
Congress isn't coming
House members leave Thursday and stay in their districts through October. Speaker Mike Johnson says emergency AI rules would hand the race to China.
“We don't need everybody to panic right now”
What it means
The AI safety debate has split the industry from the White House, and with Congress out until November, nothing gets regulated before the midterms.
