{"id":847651,"date":"2026-09-14T16:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847651\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:24:28","slug":"trump-pushes-back-on-anthropic-ceos-calls-to-slow-ai-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847651\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pushes back on Anthropic CEO’s calls to slow AI development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A ‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panel discusses ‘AI-free’ stock picks, including Royal Caribbean and Planet Fitness.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> doubled down on the importance of developing artificial intelligence despite the potential harms on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The statement comes just days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a blanket slowdown in AI development<\/a> in order to ensure safety. Trump on Sunday appeared to push back on that sentiment.<\/p>\n

“I’m not downplaying, but it’s, you know, it’s going to be more good than bad, but by a lot,” Trump told reporters when speaking of AI development.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump attends the Amgen Irish Open at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sept. 13, 2026. (Reuters\/Kylie Cooper)<\/p>\n

“But have you heard directly from any of them?” a reporter pressed, asking about AI tech leaders.<\/p>\n

“I said it from the very beginning. Whoever wins AI, and we’re leading by a lot. Whoever wins AI wins,” Trump responded, going on to demur when asked if he uses AI himself.<\/p>\n

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Amodei’s essay published Saturday also argued that a “Chinese lead in AI<\/a> would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.” He urged the Trump administration to implement more stringent limits on what AI chips<\/a> can be sent to Beijing’s development facilities.<\/p>\n

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A smartphone displaying the Anthropic logo is shown in the foreground with a blurred Claude Mythos themed background on July 11, 2026. (Imen Ben Youssef\/Hans Lucas\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

China’s foreign ministry dismissed Amodei’s statement as “fearmongering.”<\/p>\n

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“Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance which serves no one\u2019s interest,” ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a Monday news conference.<\/p>\n

Concerns over AI development burst back onto the scene last week after a developer from Anthropic resigned<\/a> and publicly claimed the company was “gambling with our lives” with its research.<\/p>\n

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Jacob Coxon, 27, who said he spent the past three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic<\/a>, noted that it’s not a completely hopeless scenario.<\/p>\n

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CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France.\u00a0 (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Evan Hubinger, alignment science lead at Anthropic, expressed his agreement with Coxon’s X post.<\/p>\n

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“Jacob is correct here \u2014 we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” he wrote on X. “I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.”<\/p>\n

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“To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report, I think the risk from present models is low,” Hubinger added. “What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panel discusses ‘AI-free’ stock picks, including Royal Caribbean and Planet Fitness. President Donald Trump doubled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-847651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}