Trump attacks Dario Amodei, saying the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART” president, and calls the idea that AI would destroy humanity a “HOAX”
President Donald Trump attacked Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging …
Context & Ripple Effects
Anthropic had framed its safety concerns in terms of American values and AI capabilities getting ahead of law in March, a position that makes its chief's call to pace frontier development more than a technical disagreement. Anthropic's earlier warning about AI outpacing law established the fault line.
Trump had already tied rejection of extinction warnings to U.S. competition with China, while Elon Musk publicly endorsed Amodei's argument for pacing the frontier. Trump's race-focused rejection of extinction warnings turns the Amodei dispute into a visible split over whether national AI leadership requires speed or constraints.
First-order effects
- Anthropic and Dario Amodei become an explicit target in Trump's public case against an AI slowdown, raising the political cost of presenting frontier-model safeguards as a central corporate position.
- Trump's remarks make presidential judgment, rather than the guardrails Amodei advocates, the administration's stated answer to catastrophic-risk warnings.
Second-order effects
- Frontier AI companies seeking alignment with Trump's competitiveness agenda face pressure to distinguish operational safety measures from arguments for slowing development.
- Musk's earlier backing gives Amodei's position a prominent industry ally, sharpening the public divide rather than leaving the debate solely between government and one AI lab. Musk's endorsement of Amodei's pacing argument
Third-order effects
- If the administration continues to treat slowdown arguments as a threat to U.S. leadership, political compatibility may become a more important strategic asset for frontier-model labs alongside model capability.
- The dispute points toward AI governance being organized around national-competition goals and executive discretion, rather than a consensus among labs on precautionary limits.
The trend: Frontier AI governance is becoming a contest between acceleration framed as national advantage and safety advocates seeking constraints before capabilities outpace law.
Related: AI sovereignty · The state-compatible AI lab · Anthropic · Dario Amodei · Trump rejects AI extinction warnings · Musk backs Amodei on pacing frontier AI
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Analysis
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NewsMax.com
Charlie McCarthy
on x
Trump Slams ‘Sick Conspiracy’ Against AI
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Vox
Cameron Peters
on x
Everyone but Trump is worried about AI
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@linamkhan
Lina Khan
on x
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn't let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there's no AI exemption from laws already on the books —…
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@dowcto
@dowcto
on x
Americanism, not effective altruism. The United States will continue to be AI DOMINANT! 🇺🇸
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@benitoz
@benitoz
on x
Holy crap POTUS just phoned in @JensenHuang live on stage at All In Summit We will not lose the ai race! And whatever Dario said this weekend won't stop our progress This made my morning! $NVDA
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
on x
not a winning strategy, either for himself or the world
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
on x
surreal moment for me personally to see the 44th president of the united states make a statement using the words “accelerationist” and “doomer” we are truly through the looking glass
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@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
on x
Ossoff: “But Donald Trump basically says, 'we're going to sit on our hands and hope for the best.' And remember, he's conflicted. 1789 Capital — I mentioned that venture firm that Don Jr is a partner in. They've invested heavily in AI labs ... the president is compromised.”
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
on x
President Trump on Truth Social says there will be no AI slowdown or pause. It's full speed ahead. He says the entire thing is a “sick conspiracy
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@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
on x
JD Vance: “I have to say, just personally, I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse.”
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@gavinsbaker
Gavin Baker
on x
The way that Anthropic and OpenAI are going to “pace” the frontier is by spending more time and more *compute* on alignment, monitoring and evals. The frontier labs that choose to “pace” likely spend slightly more money on compute at the cost of lower margins. That's it.
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
on x
President Trump: ‘Al taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX’ ‘It will not be stopped by brilliantly run Destructive Forces during the Term of President DONALD J. TRUMP!’
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@alecstapp
Alec Stapp
on x
The idea that Jensen cares about keeping the US ahead of China in AI is laughable. NVIDIA lobbies very hard in DC to be allowed to sell more AI chips to China. Last year, when @FareedZakaria asked Jensen if it matters who wins the AI race, he said: “I don't think it does.”
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@atabarrok
Alex Tabarrok
on x
@samfbiddle Right but for most of the people speaking out their financial incentive are to stay quiet.
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@willoremus
Will Oremus
on x
I'm not saying they're wrong but it is a little funny that Trump and a big chunk of the anti-AI left seem to basically agree that we should mock and ignore the people in the AI industry who are saying they feel trapped in an arms race that is starting to get a bit out of hand
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@hesamation
@hesamation
on x
The Trump Administration has stopped Al “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad “things,” like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” BRO WHAT?!
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@hackingdave
Dave Kennedy
on x
AI represents one of the largest technological leaps I have witnessed in nearly 30 years in technology and cybersecurity. These models are advancing faster than anything we have seen in modern technological history. The central concern is that this is fundamentally different from…
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@dowcto
@dowcto
on x
Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🇺🇸
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@fchollet
François Chollet
on x
You cannot separate “this person genuinely believes X, therefore they want Y” and “Y is in this person's interest”. People will almost always align their beliefs and their interests. You can be sincere *and* self-interested, and that's usually the default.
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
on x
per sources, trump is basically stumping for Jensen/Nvidia and data center buildout: “They're [Doomers] playing right into the hands of a lot of people that don't want to see it happen. Political people, and also china. We're not going to let that happen. it's a hoax.” — Trump
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@ninadschick
Nina Schick
on x
Trump is the AI President, as I wrote in 2024. Now, the question is if by making AI ‘his cause,’ it will repel a large part of the electorate/political corpus on principle. Judging by how the Dems are preparing for 2028 on an anti-AI platform, which also includes MAGA figures lik…
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@danprimack
Dan Primack
on x
Didn't crypto do the exact same thing?
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
on x
oh good.
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@thezvi
Zvi Mowshowitz
on x
Okay, this is very different, this is full hostility mode and very very bad news.
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@palmerluckey
Palmer Luckey
on x
Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) on X
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
on x
Tried: Mechanistic Interpretability, Superalignment, industry-led regulatory bodies Wired: STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT
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@agustinlebron3
Agustin Lebron
on x
Dario is a bad messenger for everything. For AI safety, for AI, for the tech industry, for SF, for progress, all of it. He is radioactively bad in public and the average person instantly hates him just by looking at him. Worse than Zuck. Anthro needs to wise up fast.
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@cat_zakrzewski
Cat Zakrzewski
on x
Trump doubles down on his opposition to new AI regulation, arguing that the only safeguard the technology needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!)” president.
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
on x
“You AI people are so naive, I live in the REAL world, where [I have been consistently wrong in my predictions about AI and behind the ball on every trend related to AI, routinely making little prognostications that stochastic gradient descent joyfully stomps all over.]”
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@negligible_cap
@negligible_cap
on x
*TRUMP: ONLY CONTROL THAT AI NEEDS IS A STRONG PRESIDENT *TRUMP SAYS DARIO IS PRETENDING TO BE ‘PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL’ lol
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@micsolana
Mike Solana
on x
nobody is saying AI doom as a space was invented in the last two weeks. the thing skeptics are saying, which I do not agree with, is the “whistleblower” (he wasn't that) is part of an op coordinated by powerful wealthy safety people (and maybe also china?).
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@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
on x
Trump: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
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@synthwavedd
Leo
on x
Uh oh
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@barackobama
Barack Obama
on x
So, we need to use this time to structure a more open, public and democratic conversation about AI. Building on the statements that the frontier companies have already made, some leaders in the space announced they're launching what they call Project Blueprint to help tech compan…
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@zephyr_z9
@zephyr_z9
on x
Bruh, the whale bros are comparing Dario to Hitler and Saburo Arasaka LMAO
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@andymasley
Andy Masley
on x
Yeah agree. We've seen a lot of amazing progress from both the right and left and it's a terrible time to reinforce memes about this being about one specific party.
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@altcap
Brad Gerstner
on x
More from Jensen: Coxon claims not based on science & demonstrably untrue; America we have to run - slowing is definitely the wrong strategy; We are already at super intelligence; The labs are incredible - we just need to urge them on but tone down the drama;
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@amitisinvesting
Amit
on x
TRUMP: ANYONE CALLING FOR A SLOWDOWN OF AI IS A TRAITOR, THEY WILL LET CHINA WIN well, the President is making it clear about his opinion on all of this AI drama
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@teroterotero
Tero Kuittinen
on x
Can't wait to see the next Sam interview where he tries to walk back his previous interview in order to keep his Trump relationship warm and cozy.
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
on x
maybe ya shouldn't have claimed that we'd “hit AGI” bud
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@dee_bosa
Deirdre Bosa
on x
https://x.com/...
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@samfbiddle
Sam Biddle
on x
This is part of why the current frenzy is so frustrating: Virtually every single prominent entity speaking loudly about AI has a massive financial interest in things shaking out one way or another
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@tedlieu
Ted Lieu
on x
trump and House Republican Leadership are on the wrong side of history. Letting the AI industry run wild has been bad for America, bad for the industry, and bad for American families. November is coming.
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
on x
jensen huang, CEO of nvidia, is currently onstage at the All In tech summit politely calling bullshit on the doomerism coming out of Anthropic (and OpenAI to some degree) right now nvidia just as conflicted as everyone, since it sells the chips to all the AI companies
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@divestech
Dan Ives
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If OpenAI and Anthropic slow their model development, the software sector will accelerate its AI development and further narrow the gap against the frontier models. Meta will also go down this path and many others. Need to see around the corner and thru the noise in this🎯
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@thestalwart
Joe Weisenthal
on x
So many people reason through heuristics, like who is aligned with whom, what personal financial interests they might have at stake, what peer group pressure they get. And I get it, because these things are complicated. But the way out, as always, is to seek truth from facts.
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@noahpinion
Noah Smith
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Anthropic people understand AI's potential for bioterror in a way that a lot of copers won't let themselves understand
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@miles_brundage
Miles Brundage
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@samfbiddle If you define prominence by being a large company or on the staff there, sure. But there are plenty of non-financially-interested experts raising the alarm, and there always have been.
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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they have made lots of progress (partly using neurosymbolic techniques!) on problems that can be formally verified, but that progress was very expensive and doesn't translate well outside of benchmarks, and on the ECI the gain was modest. Astra is not that much better than the la…
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@chrislhayes
Chris Hayes
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@samfbiddle Yes which is why people have to just do their best job of assessing the evidence and arguments and use their judgment without simply relying on that heuristic. Makes it tricky!
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@dkthomp
Derek Thompson
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“If Dario Amodei believes that Anthropic should be nationalized, he should just hand the company over to Donald Trump” Donald Trump:
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@chamath
Chamath Palihapitiya
on x
This was surreal
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@jonfavs
Jon Favreau
on x
We must beat China in the race to develop superhuman intelligence humans could lose control of! We should not do anything about this potential threat!!
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
@annmarie Fake news. I was invited but did not agree to go
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@thezvi
Zvi Mowshowitz
on x
I urge everyone, no matter how bad the statements get, I don't care what Trump says, do not turn this into more of a partisan thing than it already is, do not attack on that basis. That only makes things worse.
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@barackobama
Barack Obama
on x
I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it's a good and necessary first step. But I'm even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new tech…
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@thestalwart
Joe Weisenthal
on x
@samfbiddle So you have the one group looking at Jensen being chummy with Trump, and thinking that safety skeptics are purely money motivated. And you have folks saying that the safetyists are just motivated by Anthropic money. And I'm saying it's a dead end to reason this way!
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@deryatr_
Derya Unutmaz
on x
Hah! This made my day! We 🇺🇸 are going to make it & continue to lead in the age of AI! Thank you, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump. Thank you, @JensenHuang! 🙏 Some of us are grateful to both of you for keeping us on the path toward a golden age and blocking a dystopian future!
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@tszzl
Roon
on x
@teortaxesTex he'll come around. dario was a very bad messenger for this
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@signulll
@signulll
on x
the events unfolding right now are so incredible that even seasoned drama writers would struggle to create a timeline this good. half of it would get rejected from the writers' room for being too unrealistic.
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
on x
okay wow. per folks there, Trump called Jensen huang in the middle of his interview and jensen put the phone on speakerphone Jensen thanked trump for his social media post this morning pouring cold water on alarmism
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@aghamilton29
@aghamilton29
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I had some hesitation about calling me it an op until now... But teaming up with Jeffrey Epstein's best friend/publicist whose main benefactor for years has been a convicted fraudster with CCP ties (Miles Guo) kind of gives away the game...
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@afinetheorem
Kevin A. Bryan
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The biggest barrier to a US-China AI safety treaty are that the two countries are led by 80- and 73-year-old narcissists who regularly wipe “disloyal” experts on the tech from their govt and see everything as zero-sum. Actually very dangerous.
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@zerohedge
@zerohedge
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Trump says there is “a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China” says “Dario is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” after he was “stopped from doing bad, or potentially bad “things.”
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@agustinlebron3
Agustin Lebron
on x
Seriously, if you're pro-AI safety you need to rethink the tactics that have Dario ever opening his mouth in front of a microphone. Middle America hates a guy who thinks he's smarter than them and who reminds them of this with every utterance.
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@jason
@jason
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Trump to Dario: get back to work, we need to beat China — and traitors will be dealt with.
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@ccatalini
Christian Catalini
on x
1/ For the safety discussion, recursive self-improvement is a red herring. We already have increasing automation of AI R&D.
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@taylorlorenz
Taylor Lorenz
on x
Obama invoking AI's potential impact on “our kids” is concerning given how Democrats are weaponizing “online safety” laws to censor speech and access to information.
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@altcap
Brad Gerstner
on x
Trump calling @JensenHuang live during @theallinpod interview. “The grt thing about Jensen is that he can create the best AI chip in the world but can't figure out how to put me on speaker phone.” They agree that AI is safe, grt for jobs, economic growth & natl security. 😂🇺🇸🚀 …
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@mbeisen
@mbeisen
on x
If Dario and Sam really wanted to slow down the pace of AI, they would move their research to a university.
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@wajali
Wajahat Ali
on bluesky
Toldya. — Bannon and the post-MAGA world are moving to the left of many establishment Dems on AI. — Here it is. — Sigh. — www.axios.com/2026/09/14/c...
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@marmel
Steve Marmel
on bluesky
Bernie and Bannon unite for “pro-human” — Guys, if you're pissed at Jeffries for meeting with Kushner, then Sanders should be dead to you. — www.axios.com/2026/09/14/c...
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@karlbode.com
Karl Bode
on bluesky
guy isn't even smart enough to know the push for more “AI guardrails” isn't real, will never actually happen
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@infrequently.org
Alex Russell
on bluesky
Wow, OK, but we won't have one of those until '29 at the earliest... bbc.com/news/live/cm70d9...
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
Trump says a strong, smart president is the only “guardrail” AI needs. I guess we need to start that search now right for a smart president?
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r/ProgressiveHQ
r
on reddit
We're screwed
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r/technology
r
on reddit
Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a ‘smart president’
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r/politics
r
on reddit
Trump says a strong, smart president is the only “guardrail” AI needs
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@jake__traylor
Jake Traylor
on x
SCOOP: Trump privately met with Open AI's Sam Altman at GOP convention per three people familiar. The Thursday meeting took place two days after a former researcher for the company publicly accused both it and rival Anthropic of acting irresponsibly and
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r/BetterOffline
r
on reddit
Is this the context for Trump's latest AI tweets? Trump privately met with OpenAI's Sam Altman at GOP convention.
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LinkedIn
Zeev Farbman
on linkedin
AI Panic is A Dangerous Distraction
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@sama
Sam Altman
on x
There are two ways AI progress could go very badly and that we must avoid. First, we could lose control of the future to AI. This is unacceptable; we are unapologetically on Team Humanity, and AI must always serve people. To ensure that, we need ways to ensure that alignment and …
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@danroberts0101
Daniel Roberts
on x
A few people asked over the weekend what the calls to slow the pace of frontier AI mean for the buildout. Some thoughts: Even if models never improved from here, just rolling out what they can already do would take more compute than the world can build for years. The debate about…
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@dkthomp
Derek Thompson
on x
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with how many smart people I read and respect are saying stuff like this. The idea that the AI labs are suddenly, only now, just in September of 2026, advocating for AI safety, and that they just came around to this position bc of sudden financi…
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@skdh
Sabine Hossenfelder
on x
fwiw I think the actual reason leaders of AI frontier labs suddenly seem to agree to pace AI development is (a) safety measures are currently so crap that they're likely to end up in court if not jail, and they all agree that no one wants that (b) they see no major new model adva…
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@tomchivers
Tom Chivers
on x
my model is that there are smart people who usually apply the heuristic “prognostications of doom are moral panics”. They're often right, but in this case doing so is forcing them into mad contortions like “AI company bosses are warning of human extinction to boost share prices”
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@thebigberbowski
@thebigberbowski
on x
When we talk about “pacing”, we do not mean “stopping
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@nikesharora
Nikesh Arora
on x
THE PACING IS A NINJA MOVE - But be careful what you campaign for. In any competitive sport, I have seldom found people exercise restraint - they usually have a capture the flag mentality. Don't I want to be the best? The first? The only? - this is how we have been programmed. In…
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
on x
Michael Burry is saying exactly what i have been saying, for ages. The AI industry better hope we are both wrong
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@burrytracker
Michael Burry Stock Tracker
on x
Michael Burry says OpenAI and Anthropic are faking the AI warnings due to slow growth ahead of IPOs Below are his reasonings: 1. LLMs are not AI and won't be AGI. There is nothing AI to slow down. 2. Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits incumbents. 3. IPOs need hyp…
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@annmarie
@annmarie
on x
“We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI. But we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence. Consistent rules to manage frontier risk so that we can maxim…
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@jakesherman
Jake Sherman
on x
very interesting from Sam Altman. the problem is that Congress is nowhere close to doing anything.
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@katiemiller
Katie Miller
on x
There are over 50 lawsuits related to harm and self harm against OpenAI. Sam converted a nonprofit to a for profit company. Sam Altman's other startup is under two internal investigations for financial irregularities and bribery of foreign officials in Thailand. How can anyone tr…
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@haider1
Haider
on x
sam altman's latest statement: “when we talk about ‘pacing’, we do not mean ‘stopping’. Progress has been rapid and will continue to be
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@noahpinion
Noah Smith
on x
Some people have convinced themselves that AI doesn't work and the AI industry is about to implode, and that AI companies calling for a deliberate slowdown of the R&D that represents their only competitive edge is somehow them begging for an anticompetitive bailout. IDIOCY.
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@aiwithsally
Sally Stockholm
on x
I actually like this framing from OpenAI. I don't think “AI safety” should mean stop building. It should mean don't let capability move faster than our ability to understand and control it. What caught my attention is the shift from only asking
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@ryanfedasiuk
Ryan Fedasiuk
on x
“Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring. Where we will need the help of our government is for international coordination.”
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@micahcarroll
Micah Carroll
on x
Safety cases 🤝 third-party auditing
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@heyshrutimishra
Shruti
on x
Sam Altman just said something no AI CEO has ever said publicly. “No amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring.
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@imdenixsol
Denis
on x
sam altman says too much ai power in one company is dangerous fair. what power would @OpenAI actually give up? does “team humanity” get a say, or just a monthly bill?
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@harshmadhusudan
Harsh Gupta Madhusudan
on x
This is beginning to sound more like NPT/CTBT debates. India must push sovereign AI models much faster, and ignore those who have directly or indirectly been American or Chinese proxies.
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@blue_beba_
@blue_beba_
on x
@sama Translation: We're afraid China's open source will take our customers, so we're running this whole circus. 🤡
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@_nathancalvin
Nathan Calvin
on x
“For example, at OpenAI we now formulate explicit safety cases in advance of frontier reinforcement learning runs we expect to significantly increase capability
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@zephyr_z9
@zephyr_z9
on x
He is basically saying that we may not see the 1M Vera Rubin training run in 2027, but we will get the 500k Vera Rubin training run next year 15%-25% of their compute will be dedicated to monitoring models & alignment research “When we talk about “pacing”, we do not mean “stoppin…
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@rynorhn
Ryan Orhan
on x
“no amount of american competitive pressure should justify recklessness.
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@jeremystaf72221
@jeremystaf72221
on x
It's just weird that all of this came about when that one guy quit and came forward now. Everybody cares about safety, but nobody was saying nothing before that. This whole situation seems off and I don't know if I trust it. I hope y'all aren't doing something that might screw th…
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@aituninglab
@aituninglab
on x
I agree with @sama that alignment and concentration of power are real risks. But the answer cannot be less AI investment. We need more compute, better models, stronger safety research, and responsible deployment in parallel. Slowing capability development does not eliminate the r…
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@bijanbowen
@bijanbowen
on x
@sama No real open model competition from the US is a strategic error. ppl from OAI/ANT posting on x feels like zeus tossing letters from mt olympius to those below. Those who would support you turn against because it seems like an attack on their ability to use AI that isn't you…
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@ctrlaltdwayne
Dwayne
on x
Sam Altman has identified the dangers of Sam Altman. Alignment is progressing rapidly.
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@sophty_
Sophie
on x
@sama How should users have confidence in your decisions after how you treated us? You contradicted your own model spec to push an agenda, lied about deprecation dates, let staff mock us, turned your back, and called it safe. #keep4o
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@mayysef
Marwan
on x
@sama Why did this sudden shift happen out of nowhere, why didn't this “slowdown” happen years ago with proper safety infrastructure being built. Timing is weird.
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@jtsc8412
@jtsc8412
on x
@sama I don't think anyone is against you guys (frontier labs) pacing yourself. Do whatever and take responsibility for incidents instead of bragging it. Just don't try regulatory capture and force your will onto others. It's that simple. 🤷♂️
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@digijordan
Jordan Crowder
on x
I disagree with Sam Altman here... Frontier Ai companies do not ‘need’ the help of the US government...for domestic or international affairs. The US government has wrecked its standing with most of the countries we'd be wanting to reach out to anyways... And why would our adversa…
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@genuinearticles
@genuinearticles
on x
TLDR: China must be stopped by any means necessary.
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@thomasunise
Thomas Unise
on x
@sama Open source your models if you believe any of this
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@saanvi_dhillon
Saanvi
on x
ngl this makes sense I am all for faster AI progress, but we should probably know where the line is before we cross it you cannot just keep making models smarter and figure out the consequences later
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@hakmgpt
@hakmgpt
on x
sama says “pacing” AI progress does not mean stopping it. The goal is to keep advancing rapidly, but slow things down enough to ensure safety, monitoring, and alignment can keep up with increasingly capable models. No stopping. Just responsible pacing.
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@jlafortetech
James La Forte
on x
@sama The only solution is for tech CEOs to write more essays saying that the problems they created are someone else's problem to solve.
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@spectromachina
@spectromachina
on x
@sama Bit of a long text there sam; But how do you plan on pacing china though?
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@sierracatalina
@sierracatalina
on x
@sama our adversaries will never agree
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@chrisgpt
Chris
on x
TL;DR - OpenAI's position is basically, frontier labs should start voluntarily slowing themselves down with safety cases, monitoring, and alignment evaluations before major capability increasing RL runs, rather than waiting for governments to force them to. Also my favorite part …
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@basedjensen
@basedjensen
on x
@sama How open would you guys be to none ea aligned assors that are actually competent?
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@kyrannio
Kiri
on x
TLDR: we need insurance against blame
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@theretardedelon
@theretardedelon
on x
@sama If you pull back on A.I. like these retards want then every other enemy / competitor to us will laugh at us while giving us the middle finger, as they accel right past us. You do NOT pull back on A.I. — it's too late at this point, Sam.
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@doofyofficial
@doofyofficial
on x
@sama You don't care about safety, you never have. The only thing you care about is control and yourself. What you're actually trying to do is outcast modules from the public so you and your friends can have a government provided monopoly. Fck you and your scam company
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George Kurtz
George Kurtz
on linkedin
I read Dario Amodei's essay calling on the labs to pace the frontier. Sam Altman agreed. The frontier will move at whatever speed it moves. …
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@j4ck.xyz
Jack
on bluesky
yet he's gonna keep releasing new models, and so will Anthropic.... [embedded post]
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r/technology
r
on reddit
China dismisses AI slowdown calls and blasts ‘fearmongering’ from U.S. tech leaders
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r/politics
r
on reddit
China dismisses AI slowdown calls and blasts ‘fearmongering’ from U.S. tech leaders
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r/neoliberal
r
on reddit
China dismisses AI slowdown calls and blasts ‘fearmongering’ from U.S. tech leaders
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NewsMax.com
Theodore Bunker
on x
Sen. Thune Urges ‘Light Touch’ AI Regulation
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
on x
i guess not well?
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@repmcgovern
Rep. Jim McGovern
on bluesky
Because this strategy has worked out so well with food safety, big pharma, big oil, and social media...
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r/politics
r
on reddit
House Speaker Risks Trump Ire on Any AI Guardrail Legislation
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@robertgraham
Robert Graham
on x
Development? No. They are talking abut slowing down RELEASES to the public, not internal DEVELOPMENT. Once they finish pre-training their next “foundational model
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r/youvotedforthat
r
on reddit
Trump says a strong, smart president is the only “guardrail” AI needs... so when can we get one of those instead of Trump?