SynopsisPresident Donald Trump has rejected calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk to slow advanced AI development and strengthen safeguards. The debate highlights growing concerns over AI risks, cybersecurity threats and regulation as the US seeks to maintain its technological lead over China.

comTrump clashes with AI leaders over safety. President Donald Trump has rejected warnings from some of the world's biggest AI executives that the technology is advancing too quickly, setting up a sharp divide with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX's Elon Musk over the need for stronger safeguards, Reuters reported.

The dispute comes as the US races to maintain its lead over China in artificial intelligence, while concerns over AI's ability to cause widespread damage are increasingly becoming part of the political and business debate. A.

has that, in spades!” Trump posted on social media.

Amodei calls for slower AI developmentAmodei called for a slowdown in advanced AI development in a Saturday essay titled " We Must Pace the Frontier", saying progress had accelerated "drastically faster" since summer 2026, Reuters reported. “Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet,” Amodei wrote, adding that the damages could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars or more “without the necessary guardrails.”

Amodei proposed stronger safety testing, independent evaluations of advanced AI models, greater coordination among leading AI companies and international cooperation. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier.

This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks,” Altman said, according to Reuters. He also said OpenAI intended to adopt the idea of independent evaluators with employee-like access.

Musk offered his support in a short post on X: “Dario is right.” “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China,” Trump said.

“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,” Vance said.