Trump Says He’s the Only AI ‘Guardrail’ Needed and Mocks Anthropic CEO’s Call for AI Slowdown: ‘Pretending to Be a Perfect Little Angel’

President Donald Trump has stated that he is the only "guardrail" needed for AI development, downplaying the need for industry-wide protections. This comes after the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI called for a slowdown in AI development due to safety concerns. Trump made the comments in a Truth Social post, where he also criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for "pretending to be a perfect little angel".

According to Variety and TheWrap, Trump claimed that his administration has already prevented AI developers from doing "bad" or "potentially bad" things. He also asserted that the US is leading China and other countries in AI development and will continue to do so. Trump's comments appear to be a response to Amodei's essay, in which he argued that the industry needs to slow down development to address safety concerns.

TheWrap reports that Trump's criticism of Amodei may be personal, as Anthropic refused to remove safety restrictions for the Department of Defense, leading Trump to order the government to phase out use of Anthropic products. Trump also accused "conspiracy theorists, treasonists, traitors, and leakers" of working against AI and data centers, and claimed that China is the only beneficiary of efforts to slow AI development.

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