{
  "id": 7518616,
  "title": "\"I am the Hoax Buster\": Trump's war on AI doomers gets personal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/i-am-the-hoax-buster-trumps-war-on-ai-doomers-gets-personal",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-15T09:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Axios",
    "slug": "axios",
    "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/15/trump-ai-doom-safety-regulation-hoax"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Donald Trump declared a war on the AI safety panic on Monday, dismissing the industry's warnings as part of a \"sick conspiracy\" to sabotage America and his legacy. The President argued that AI's need for control or guardrails is a strong and smart president, accusing Democrats of stoking the panic. The administration's opposition to AI regulation has escalated, with Trump framing the safety debate in personal terms, placing AI doomerism alongside his impeachments, the Russia investigation, and climate change. At the All In Summit in Los Angeles, Trump dismissed AI doomerism as a \"hoax,\" assuring thousands of tech executives that \"the robots will not be taking over.\" Critics question how Trump, an 80-year-old populist, became an evangelist for AI, seeing the AI boom as his own.",
  "summary": "President Trump declared war on the AI safety panic Monday, dismissing the industry's apocalyptic warnings as part of a \"sick conspiracy\" to sabotage America and his legacy. Why it matters: Trump is rewriting a complex, years-long debate over AI's dangers in the partisan grammar that has defined MAGA for a decade — hoaxes, conspiracies, traitors and, at the center of it all, one man. \"The only…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "National Post",
        "title": "Self-proclaimed ‘Hoax Buster,’ Trump scoffs at warnings about AI dangers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/self-proclaimed-hoax-buster-trump-scoffs-at-warnings-about-ai-dangers",
        "published": "2026-09-15T00:25:54.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Trump calls, interrupts Nvidia CEO to say AI fears are ‘a hoax’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/trump-calls-interrupts-nvidia-ceo-to-say-ai-fears-are-a-hoax",
        "published": "2026-09-15T03:28:42.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "‘A sick conspiracy’: Trump dismisses AI danger warnings as a hoax",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/a-sick-conspiracy-trump-dismisses-ai-danger-warnings-as-a-hoax",
        "published": "2026-09-15T03:31:08.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Trump dismisses AI safety alarm, says US already has tools to police industry",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/trump-dismisses-ai-safety-alarm-says-us-already-has-tools-to-police",
        "published": "2026-09-15T04:02:38.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "Trump crashes Jensen Huang’s live interview: ‘AI fears are a hoax,’ data centres are ‘great, oil of the next 25 years'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/trump-crashes-jensen-huangs-live-interview-ai-fears-are-a-hoax-data",
        "published": "2026-09-15T05:04:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Insurance Journal",
        "title": "Trump Dismisses AI Safety Alarm, Says US Already Has Tools to Police Industry",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/trump-dismisses-ai-safety-alarm-says-us-already-has-tools-to-police-7486130",
        "published": "2026-09-15T05:27:44.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "Trump calls AI a ‘hoax’ in surprise onstage call with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/trump-calls-ai-a-hoax-in-surprise-onstage-call-with-nvidias-jensen",
        "published": "2026-09-15T05:34:43.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}