{"id":16026,"date":"2026-09-14T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:54:44","slug":"trump-pushes-back-on-anthropic-ceos-calls-to-slow-ai-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=16026","title":{"rendered":"Trump pushes back on Anthropic CEO&#8217;s calls to slow AI development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/donald-trump-irish-whiskey-tariffs.jpg\" \/>     <\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;Barron&#8217;s Roundtable&#8217; panel discusses &#8216;AI-free&#8217; stock picks, including Royal Caribbean and Planet Fitness.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump doubled down on the importance of developing artificial intelligence despite the potential harms on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes just days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a blanket slowdown in AI development in order to ensure safety. Trump on Sunday appeared to push back on that sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not downplaying, but it&#8217;s, you know, it&#8217;s going to be more good than bad, but by a lot,&#8221; Trump told reporters when speaking of AI development.<\/p>\n<p>ANTHROPIC CEO CALLS ON AI INDUSTRY TO SLOW DOWN TECH RACE, DRAWING SUPPORT FROM ELON MUSK, SAM ALTMAN<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump attends the Amgen Irish Open at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sept. 13, 2026. (REUTERS\/Kylie Cooper \/ Reuters Photos)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But have you heard directly from any of them?&#8221; a reporter pressed, asking about AI tech leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said it from the very beginning. Whoever wins AI, and we&#8217;re leading by a lot. Whoever wins AI wins,&#8221; Trump responded, going on to demur when asked if he uses AI himself.<\/p>\n<p>MIKE JOHNSON REJECTS AI MORATORIUM OVER CHINA THREAT AS CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST DEMANDS GUARDRAILS<\/p>\n<p>Amodei&#8217;s essay published Saturday also argued that a &#8220;Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.&#8221; He urged the Trump administration to implement more stringent limits on what AI chips can be sent to Beijing&#8217;s development facilities.<\/p>\n<p>A smartphone displaying the Anthropic logo is shown in the foreground with a blurred Claude Mythos themed background on July 11, 2026.\u00a0 (Imen Ben Youssef \/ Hans Lucas \/ AFP via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s foreign ministry dismissed Amodei&#8217;s statement as &#8220;fearmongering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>US ADVERSARY TURNS UP THE HEAT ON AMERICA\u2019S AI LEAD WITH AN UNDERESTIMATED EDGE<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance which serves no one\u2019s interest,&#8221; ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a Monday news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns over AI development burst back onto the scene last week after a developer from Anthropic resigned and publicly claimed the company was &#8220;gambling with our lives&#8221; with its research.<\/p>\n<p>AI EXTINCTION WARNINGS DOMINATE HEADLINES AFTER EX-ANTHROPIC EMPLOYEE&#8217;S VIRAL POST<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Coxon, 27, who said he spent the past three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, noted that it&#8217;s not a completely hopeless scenario.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France.\u00a0 (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Evan Hubinger, alignment science lead at Anthropic, expressed his agreement with Coxon&#8217;s X post.<\/p>\n<p>REP. TED LIEU: AI IS ALREADY TOO POWERFUL. WE NEED A KILL SWITCH BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jacob is correct here \u2014 we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!&#8221; he wrote on X. &#8220;I personally think it is &gt;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report, I think the risk from present models is low,&#8221; Hubinger added. &#8220;What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>#Trump #pushes #Anthropic #CEOs #calls #slow #development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8216;Barron&#8217;s Roundtable&#8217; panel discusses &#8216;AI-free&#8217; stock picks, including Royal Caribbean and Planet Fitness. 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