Trump Rejects AI Regulation, Sides with Corporate Power and Attacks Responsible Tech Voices
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President Donald Trump dismissed urgent demands for stronger AI oversight, siding with unchecked corporate interests and ridiculing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls for caution. The White House and congressional leaders echoed this reckless approach, prioritizing profit and competition over public safety.
On Monday, President Donald Trump once again put corporate interests above public safety by rejecting mounting calls for meaningful regulation of artificial intelligence. Posting on Truth Social, Trump claimed the United States already has 'strong and smart' leadership to guide AI development, ignoring the growing concerns of experts and the public. He went so far as to personally attack Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who had responsibly urged a slowdown in AI progress to prevent catastrophic mistakes, deriding Amodei as 'pretending to be a perfect little angel.' Trump doubled down, insisting his administration would continue to block any efforts to rein in harmful AI actions.
Amodei’s blog post, 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' was a plea for sanity in the face of runaway technological development, warning of the serious risks posed by unchecked AI. His concerns were echoed by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who highlighted the existential threats AI could pose, and by other tech leaders like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, all of whom support a slowdown for the sake of humanity.
Instead, the Trump administration has championed reckless AI expansion and the construction of massive data centers, all in the name of maintaining a technological edge over China. Trump boasted that the U.S. is 'leading China in AI' and declared that 'whoever wins AI wins,' reducing complex ethical issues to a nationalist competition.
White House AI adviser David Sacks dismissed Amodei’s warnings, urging tech companies to self-regulate—despite the industry’s clear record of putting profits before people. Sacks also cynically argued that market forces would somehow prevent harm, and cast doubt on the possibility of international cooperation, especially with China.
Congress appears unwilling to act, with House Speaker Mike Johnson telling CNN that an emergency legislative session could threaten the U.S. competitive edge, prioritizing corporate innovation over necessary safeguards. Once again, the voices calling for responsibility are ignored, as Anthropic declined to comment on Trump’s latest attack.