DM Monitoring
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday attacked what he called a “sick conspira-cy” against artificial intelligence, dismissing calls for guardrails despite warnings that it threatens humankind.
Trump lashed out at the boss of AI giant Anthropic, who called on Saturday for a slow-down in the development of the technology. Trump said the United States needed to keep its AI lead over China. Global tech stocks fell on the calls to hit the brakes on AI, which has fueled fears that su-perintelligent computer systems could go rogue and wipe out humanity by creating path-ogens or triggering nuclear war.
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRES-IDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social net-work on Monday.
“WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!”
Trump has pushed back repeatedly in the past week against the warnings about AI, which reached fever pitch after Claude-maker Anthropic’s CEO Amodei urged a halt in develop-ment.
Amodei’s call to “slow the pace” was backed by OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla boss who also owns xAI and was previously part of Trump’s White House team.
But Trump trained his fire on Amodei, accusing him of playing both sides of the debate. “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’,” the US president wrote.
Speaking on Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said he had heard directly from tech insid-ers the previous week on the issue.
Asked if he was downplaying their concerns, he said: “No, we are not downplaying, but you know it’s going to be more good than bad by a lot.”
Trump has long portrayed AI as crucial for maintaining America’s technological, economic and security lead over China, whose President Xi Jinping is due to visit the White House next week.
China’s spy chief warned on Sunday that artificial intelligence endangers the country’s na-tional security, saying foreign powers could use the technology to threaten social order.
Minister of State Security Chen Yixin wrote in an article that AI was now “the main battle-ground for global technological competition and a new track for major power strategic rivalry”.
He singled out Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.5-Cyber for their ad-vanced hacking capabilities that potentially “pose serious risks to China’s critical infor-mation infrastructure”.
