Trump says no need for more AI regulation, slams Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Trump says no need for more AI regulation, slams Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. While these measures will have “significant costs,” he wrote on X: “Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness. ”CommentsBack to topJoin the discussionCommentsBack to topYou Might Also LikeIn your inbox: WIRED's most ambitious, future-defining storiesAI slop backlash is actually having an impactBig Story: The cop who took on FlockThe rise of the 1am job interviewWatch: I stole a car by hacking this hidden deviceTopicsDonald Trumpagentic AIElon MuskSam AltmanDario Amodeiartificial intelligenceAnthropicOpenAIChinaTop eBay Coupons in September 2026Save up to 60% on a selection of items at eBay, including electronics, home products, card games, car parts and more.
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And whatever Dario said this weekend won’t stop our progressThis made my morning! $NVDA pic. twitter. com/Sr4wV9kMfz— Ben Pouladian ✈️ All-in Summit (@benitoz) September 14, 2026 “The great thing about life is Jensen can develop the most complex computer chip in the world … but he can’t figure out how to put you on speaker,” Trump said on the phone. (Huang is likely aware of how speakerphones work; he was asking stagehands for an extra microphone so that he could project the call to the audience. ) Onstage, Huang and the All-In hosts had been discussing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI. ” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have publicly said they agree with Amodei, while Huang’s views have diverged.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called on the US government to regulate AI companies within a wider effort to slow the pace of the technology’s development in an essay published Saturday. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for the pace of AI development to slow and be more closely monitored, as the company has done before, though some have questioned the motivations behind this. Skip to main contentSkip to navigation CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei, speaks in India in February.
Photograph: Bhawika Chhabra/ReutersView image in fullscreenCEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei, speaks in India in February. After apocalyptic warnings about the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers’ repeated warnings that artificial intelligence could kill all of humanity by 2030, the AI company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, issued a proposal at the weekend to slow down the technology’s advancement to ensure public safety.
View image in fullscreenElon Musk, CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have said AI firms should slow down the development of the powerful technology.
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Image source, ReutersImage caption, There was no alternative to developing AI, Anthropic boss Dario Amodei saidByPaulin Kola and Lily Jamali, North America technology correspondent, Reporting fromin San FranciscoPublished12 September 2026The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. Skip to main contentSave this storySave this storyAs calls for artificial intelligence regulation intensify, US President Donald Trump’s team have made it clear that if lab leaders want to implement an industry-wide slowdown, they’re going to have to do it themselves.
It comes after Jack Clark, co-founder of AI giant Anthropic, told the BBC that a "kill switch" that can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for the industry. The only "guardrails" needed for AI was a "strong and smart" president, said Trump. He added that "most labs have different ways of being able to pull the plug", including Anthropic, but said lawmakers may need to enforce having one. The bosses of two rival AI firms, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI, have also said they agree with Amodei's proposal for industry-wide deceleration and regulation, as well as independent monitoring of AI model development.
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Related topicsInternational BusinessArtificial intelligenceDonald TrumpUnited StatesMore on this storyAI regulation faces political deadlock as calls grow for Congress to actPublished10 hours agoWhy are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they? “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Altman posted Saturday on X. While lawmakers and the tech industry consider how to address growing fear and distrust of AI, many of the hurdles impeding comprehensive AI regulation remain the same as before last week’s apocalyptic declarations from a young Anthropic researcher.
Amodei’s pacing proposal has drawn heavy skepticism from critics and researchers who allege that AI firms are attempting to preempt more stringent government regulation and retain the status quo of power within the industry. The Trump administration has often framed AI development as a zero-sum contest against China for technological supremacy, an argument the AI industry itself has also promoted in the face of proposed government regulation. Figure caption, AI "more powerful by the day", Anthropic co-founder tells BBCByKali Hays, Technology reporter and Faisal Islam, Economics editorPublished14 September 2026Updated 15 September 2026 01:32 BSTAn artificial intelligence "kill switch" which can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for companies, a co-founder of one of the world's largest AI firms has told the BBC.
While it could become a substitute for regulation, under Trump, substantial regulation is unlikely anyway. “We’ve looked at people like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk as these people who are closest to the problem and working on it every day, and they’re the ones who know best.
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But the truth is there’s never been a realistic vision for what we’re building toward. ”“The industry as a whole needs new champions. ”Concerns about AI advancement have been escalating for months, sparked largely by revelations that swarms of agents were behind rogue hacks going on right under the noses of leading frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI. Most people also, however, believe companies are in no imminent danger of regulation, besides the model pre-release review periods AI labs have agreed to under the Trump administration.
President Trump posted on Monday that “the only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ! ) PRESIDENT, and the U. A. has that, in spades! ” He also called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was onstage at a conference — Trump told the crowd on speakerphone that recent concerns about AI were a “hoax” and that “the robots will not be taking over. ”As for concerns that regulation could hold back other companies or open source developers, calls for slowdowns have been almost exclusively aimed at big frontier AI labs defined by exact size metrics, many industry experts told The Verge.
Amodei cited RSI as a major factor in his decision to call for a slowdown: “since roughly this summer, AI has been advancing drastically faster. ” He wrote in his recent essay that RSI is “starting to happen across the industry, including at Anthropic … Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all. ” Amodei proposed implementing “some kind of ‘speed limit’” on the rate of RSI and compared it to caps on missile numbers.
Dario Amodei wrote in an online essay that developing AI was not in question, but that the risks associated with it were "serious" and that companies and governments must be given time to address them. In Amodei's essay, called We Must Pace the Frontier and published on Saturday, he proposed a three-point plan that included independent monitoring of AI models as they are developed, industry-wide regulation and global regulation.
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