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President Donald Trump said Monday (September 14, 2026) that he would be a sufficient guardrail against rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the technology was part of a “SICK conspiracy.”
Mr. Trump was pushing back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk to have greater government oversight of AI. Their goal is to ensure the technology is developed in ways that promote safety, address legal liability, feed economic growth, advance science and preserve national security. Mr. Anthropic has endured an uncomfortable relationship with the Trump administration, with the Pentagon trying to label the company’s models a security risk and a temporary ban of one of its more advanced models. Mr. And where’s President Trump? Looks like he nodded off again. It’s time to turn the lights on, put both hands on the wheel, and regain control before it’s too late.”
Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on Saturday (September 12, 2026) that called for slower development of AI. Microsoft on Monday (September 14, 2026) published its own code of conduct to ensure that humans control AI. The actions come after a series of warnings by AI experts about the technologies’ capabilities and the July 2026 cyberattack by OpenAI models on the AI company Hugging Face. Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor, Democratic congressman and White House chief of staff, said on Saturday (September 12, 2026) that the Anthropic CEO’s essay was “an admission that we’re driving down a dark, winding road on wet pavement with the headlights off.
Trump specifically said that the administration has already stopped the AI company Anthropic “from doing bad, or potentially bad” things.
