Speaking to reporters Thursday before boarding his Air Force One flight home to Washington, D.C., following the conclusion of the Republican midterms convention in Dallas, Texas, the president was asked if he had any fears about AI\u2019s rapid advance.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I don\u2019t have any,\u201d he answered<\/a>. \u201cI have concerns that, if we don\u2019t win AI, we\u2019re going to be put in a very bad position. We are leading China right now by a pretty good period. I would say a year, which is, you know, considered a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n Separately, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a> also weighed in on the subject of potential extermination by rogue AI Thursday, telling Politico\u2019s Dasha Burns<\/a>: \u201cIf they\u2019re going to be killer robots, I\u2019d rather they be American killer robots and not Chinese killer robots.\u201d<\/p>\n Like Trump, Cruz warned against China\u2019s role in the swift evolution of the technology, saying the competition Beijing represented meant it would be impossible to slow down the pace of development, adding: \u201cThe Chinese are putting no guardrails. They\u2019re going full speed ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the U.S. must not \u201cstifle innovation\u201d and that it would be \u201cdangerous\u201d to allow China to steal a march.<\/p>\n Their comments came after former Anthropic<\/a> researcher Jacob Coxon took to X Wednesday to announce his resignation<\/a> and warn<\/a> that those leading the sector were \u201cracing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,\u201d without taking sufficient precautions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade, Coxon said<\/a>. \u201cThis is not a marketing stunt.\u201d <\/p>\n On the same day, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials issued a joint statement accusing China of stealing intellectual property<\/a> from American AI laboratories through a process known as distillation, singling out the Chinese firms DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba for criticism. <\/p>\n Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning responded by urging the U.S. to \u201crefrain from making false accusations and smearing China,\u201d escalating tensions between the superpowers ahead of Premier Xi Jinping\u2019s arrival in Washington on September 24.<\/p>\n Trump, who cheerily posts AI memes<\/a> on his Truth Social platform, also downplayed concerns about the technology in an interview with GB News earlier this month, telling Bev Turner<\/a>: \u201cAI is going to be positive. There\u2019s some negatives, but that\u2019ll be straightened out. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd we\u2019re building plants, data centres, data centres are actually fabulous. They create tremendous wealth, tremendous jobs.\u201d <\/p>\n Asked if he feared AI could ultimately hit employment, he replied: \u201cI think it\u2019ll create millions of jobs because it\u2019s going to create business.<\/p>\n \u201cComputers and things have to be created in some form, and they\u2019re created by man. They are created, but they’re created by us. It\u2019s going to always start with us.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-11T034031Z_1093061284_RC2RGNADY2UE_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP.JPG\")
President Donald Trump said he has no concerns about AI but is worried about China dominating its development (Reuters)<\/p>\n![\"Texas](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ted-Cruz.png\")
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says he would rather be killed by ‘American killer robots’ than Chinese ones (Politico)<\/p>\n