Trump says the only AI regulation needed is a ‘High IQ’ president

President Donald Trump downplayed the importance of more artificial intelligence regulations as some major AI company CEOs call for an internationally coordinated development slowdown.

“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “The Trump Administration has stopped AI ‘people’ from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things,’ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’ – and we will continue to do so!”

Trump added that the United States already has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies” in response to the calls for an AI development slowdown led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who last weekend raised his concerns about AI safety in an open letter.

“There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China,” the president said. “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

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Amodei’s weekend call for a slowdown has since been amplified by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and was prompted by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon last week predicting that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade.”

Meanwhile, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, like Trump and White House ally David Sacks, has downplayed the concerns.