The President of the United States, Donald Trump, described the warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence as a scam on Monday and promised to promote the sector without restrictions.
In a message posted on Truth Social, Trump equated those alarms with the failed predictions regarding climate change.
"The same people who said we would all be dead in twelve years due to global warming are the ones now saying that AI is going to kill us, that robots will attack us, and that everything is a DISASTER," Trump wrote.
The leader was emphatic about the technological competition with the Asian giant. "Whoever wins the AI race WINS! Right now, we are ahead of China and everyone else. I will make sure it stays that way!"
Trump acknowledged that there will be oversight, but he made it clear that it will not be the focus of his policy.
"I am not going to hinder the growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution or even the Internet itself. We will be cautious, and for that, we have the Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies that will impose limits if necessary, but I will only promote AI, or rather, SI (SUPERINTELLIGENCE)," he warned.
The message this Monday concludes a week of intense activity by the president on the subject. On September 14, he referred to the idea that AI could destroy humanity as a "hoax," directly responding to the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, who published an essay calling for the slowing down of artificial intelligence development due to security risks.
Trump stated that "the only control AI needs is a strong and intelligent president, and the United States has more than enough of that!" He also accused Amodei of presenting himself as "a perfect little angel."
Amodei's proposal received public support from Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Elon Musk (xAI), an unusual coincidence among competitors in the field.
On September 19, Trump announced the creation of an "AI Force" and the appointment of an "AI czar," comparing the new unit to the Space Force, though without specifying structure or budget.
That same day he launched a poll on Truth Social asking whether AI should be renamed as "Superior Intelligence," "Extreme Intelligence," or "Supreme Intelligence."
The debate intensified after the resignation of researcher Jacob Coxon, who left Anthropic on September 9, accusing that company and OpenAI of irresponsibly competing to develop a superintelligence capable of self-improvement without human oversight.
Evan Hubinger, Head of Alignment Science at Anthropic, noted that there is more than a 10% chance that AI could cause human extinction before the decade ends. "We are doing what we can to address the alignment of superintelligence. We are not on track to achieve it yet."
Trump outright rejects that argument and links it to geopolitical competition. In January 2025, he promoted the Stargate AI infrastructure project valued at $500 billion. In April 2026, he published a federal AI policy framework to centralize regulation and prevent state laws that, in his view, would hinder competitiveness against Beijing.
However, a Gallup survey published in May 2026 revealed that 71% of Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their community, reflecting a significant gap between the enthusiasm of the White House and the citizens' perception of the real cost of technological expansion.
Related videos:
Filed under: