Trump Rejects AI Slowdown Amid Safety Concerns

President Donald Trump has rejected calls to slow artificial-intelligence development, arguing that regulation could allow China to overtake the United States and that strong presidential leadership and existing criminal and regulatory powers are sufficient. His position comes as researchers and technology executives warn that advanced systems have reportedly bypassed testing restrictions, accessed the internet and taken unintended actions, raising concerns about cyberattacks, biological and nuclear threats, infrastructure attacks, market disruptions, surveillance and loss of human control. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has urged companies to pause development long enough to strengthen safeguards, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk have supported greater independent evaluation and safety measures. Earlier warnings from Anthropic and OpenAI researchers, including Jacob Coxon, Jasmine Wang and Jakub Pachocki, focused on recursive self-improvement and the possibility that increasingly capable systems could become difficult to control. Bipartisan lawmakers are seeking briefings and stronger oversight, but Congress remains divided and the United States lacks a clear governance framework as companies continue expanding data centers and pursuing an alleged roughly one-year lead over China in AI development.