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President denounces demands for regulation as existential fears over technology move to the centre of US politics
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The public debate about AI has heated up in the US after two Anthropic researchers issued warnings that the rapidly progressing technology could lead to the extinction of the human race in the not-too-distant future.
The speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson has warned that slowing AI development could cost the United States the tech race to China.
YouTube erased 4.7B views of "AI slop" in January 2026, but the algorithm's proxy for slop is a missing human face, and that catches directed AI films too.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety.
