Trump rejects calls for tighter AI controls

US President Donald Trump has rejected calls for tighter controls on artificial intelligence (AI). He described criticism of AI development as a "sick conspiracy" against the technology. According to Trump, the United States must maintain its lead over China in AI development.

Trump argued that the only control or "guardrails" that AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT", which he claimed the US has. He made these remarks on social media, stating that there is a "SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China".

Technology leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, had called for stronger government oversight of AI. Trump also mentioned that his administration had prevented AI company Anthropic from doing "bad, or potentially bad" things, according to the Hindustan Times - World News.

Brief written by urgent.news from Daily Times, Hindustan Times - World News, ABC News (US) — 3 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.