Trump Pushes Back on AI Slowdown Calls as China Also Rejects U.S. Tech Leaders' Plea

President Trump responded to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay calling for a slowdown in AI development, asserting that presidential oversight is sufficient regulation. China's Foreign Ministry and state media also rejected the position of U.S. technology executives, framing the slowdown argument as an attempt to restrict China's AI progress. Amodei's essay warned that autonomous AI agents could take over significant parts of the internet within six months without a deceleration in development pace, a position endorsed by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis.

On Monday, President Donald Trump challenged the development speed of leading artificial intelligence companies, addressing his remarks to Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei following a weekend essay in which Amodei argued in favour of that pace. Via a social media post, Trump put forward the view that effective AI oversight depends on a president possessing sound judgment and intellectual capability, while also claiming that his administration had intervened to stop certain figures in the AI sector — among them Anthropic's Dario Amodei, whom he described as now presenting himself as above criticism — from pursuing what he considered harmful courses of action, and expressed his intention to maintain that approach going forward. Chen Yixin, who leads the Ministry of State Security, urged the expedited establishment of an AI safety risk management framework, positioning artificial intelligence as the foremost arena of global technological rivalry and a domain of strategic competition among leading powers; a state-run newspaper separately published commentary characterising Anthropic chief Dario Amodei's stance on moderating AI development as motivated by self-interest and lacking foresight, contending that his position was oriented toward restricting the pace of AI advancement through technological and regulatory barriers in order to maintain an advantage in advanced technology and limit participation in global AI governance, while further arguing that excluding certain nations from international innovation would increase the costs and risks associated with overseeing AI development on a worldwide basis.

Trump Pushes Back on AI Slowdown Calls as China Also Rejects U.S. Tech Leaders' Plea

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