Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have expressed skepticism toward recent calls from AI executives to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development.
Trump and Mike Johnson push back against calls to slow AI development
The movement for cautious development follows an open letter from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocating to "pace the frontier," a sentiment supported by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Alphabet's Demis Hassabis.
However, Trump and Johnson expressed concerns that regulatory or restrictive measures could jeopardize American leadership. According to the Financial Times, Trump stated that the U.S. currently leads China in AI and emphasized the importance of maintaining that position.
Mike Johnson echoed these sentiments on CNN, telling Jake Tapper that rushing to implement emergency regulations could pose a national security threat by causing the U.S. to lose the AI race to China.
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- Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting （The Verge AI, 2026-09-13）