# Trump vs Silicon Valley's AI brakes

> Tech leaders want to slow frontier AI down, and the president just called it a conspiracy.
- Title: Trump vs Silicon Valley's AI brakes · Futurism | Shortify
- Summary: Tech leaders want to slow frontier AI down, and the president just called it a conspiracy. The people building frontier AI are the ones asking for brakes…
- Keywords: ai safety, trump, anthropic, openai, regulation, science, technology, Silicon, Valley's, brakes, Futurism
- Source: Futurism — https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-blundering-ai-slowdown-threaten-future
- Author: Victor Tangermann
- Published: 2026-09-14T14:26:13+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: ai safety, trump, anthropic, openai, regulation, science, technology
## The builders want brakes
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and Sam Altman over the weekend in calling for a slowdown on frontier AI models. Days earlier, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit, saying neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly.

> acting responsibly
## Rogue AI left the footnotes
After a run of hacking incidents this year, the idea of a model going off the rails stopped being a hypothetical. It is now a live conversation at the top of the industry.
## Trump says no
The president used a weekend golf tournament to reject the slowdown outright, framing AI purely as a race against China that safety worries do not get to interrupt.

> We're leading China in AI, we're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way.
## A conspiracy against AI
On Truth Social he mocked Amodei as a "perfect little angel" and claimed a plot was underway, apparently missing that the tech industry itself is the one asking for oversight.

> There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China.
## His own record cuts against him
Much of the second term went to brokering billion-dollar AI deals and stripping Biden-era AI and environmental rules. That all-gas narrative gets harder to sell as experts talk about misaligned models as near-inevitable.
## Midterms and data centers
He already softened the line, saying he is not downplaying anything but it will be "more good than bad." Democrats are uniting behind a pause, and public anger at data center construction gives them a ready-made issue.

> I'm not downplaying. But it's going to be more good than bad, by a lot.
## Key takeaway

The people building frontier AI are the ones asking for brakes, and the White House is calling that a plot against America.