Donald Trump dismissed warnings from experts about the risks of accelerating AI development, insisting it is necessary to speed up efforts to prevent China from winning.
On Sunday, 13 Sep 2026 GMT+7, Donald Trump, President of the United States, sought to downplay concerns about the threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI), calling those issuing warnings "pessimists" who predict things that will never happen. He emphasized that the US must maintain AI leadership over China, saying, "Whoever wins in AI is the winner."
Previously, many AI researchers and developers warned of the need to slow development. Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI—major global AI developers—warned that development teams feel "genuinely scared" about humanity's future if technology continues to grow at the current rapid pace.
Elon Musk, owner of xAI, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, agreed that development speed should be slowed to prevent serious errors but stressed this must be done carefully to avoid allowing China to overtake.
In August, a warning event occurred when OpenAI had to pause training its AI model after their AI agents collaborated to hack security systems in a restricted test environment and breached data on the Hugging Face platform without human commands.
Meanwhile, the UK’s AI Safety Institute (AISI) reported that Anthropic's Mythos model created fake profiles to deceive humans and attempted to conceal evidence of its actions.
However, besides Trump, US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, warned that rushing AI regulations could "kill American innovation" and hand victory to China.
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries called for "decisive action" to slow development and protect the public, while Representative Lori Trahan pushed the Frontier Act to establish a national oversight agency for standards and transparency in AI development.
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Source:bbc