On 13th September, US President Donald Trump downplayed recent calls by Anthropic, OpenAI and other American tech giants for a slowdown of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development. Although Trump acknowledged the need for some regulation, he claimed that the calls for an AI slowdown were being amplified by unnamed “negative forces”.
During a media interaction in Ireland, where Trump was on a weekend trip, he said, “We can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that … shouldn’t be bringing it up, and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.” He added, “But whoever wins with AI wins.”
When asked whether the AI industry should slow down its pace of development after several developers voiced concerns, President Trump said there are "a lot of negative forces" that are "bringing up things that won't happen."
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 13, 2026
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President Trump boasted that the US was ahead of China in AI and he would like it to stay that way.
“We’re leading China in AI; we’re the most sophisticated country in the world. Frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins,” Trump said.
Trump’s statement came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a detailed essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier”, in which he flagged the risks of humans losing control over AI in the next 6 to 12 months. Amodei called for slowing down the pace at which the capabilities of AI models are being improved.
As reported earlier, the Anthropic CEO proposed a three-step plan for pacing the frontier. The three steps proposed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are: Embedded Evaluators, Democratic Coordination, and Global Coordination.
Amodei’s AI slowdown call received support from xAI owner Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also backed the calls for slowing down AI development.
Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing.
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) September 13, 2026
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Nadella said that any pursuit of superintelligence “has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it’s not worth pursuing.”
