Date: September 13th, 2026 12:19 PM Author: Maize Legend Rigor
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk all publicly backed slowing the industry over the weekend. On Sunday, President Trump waved off the idea.
President Trump dismissed a rare bipartisan call from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development, telling reporters Sunday that the U.S. cannot afford to fall behind China.
"We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins," Trump 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."
Trump's comments were his first public response to a joint moment Saturday when Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI publicly backed a call to reduce the pace at which AI companies build more powerful models. The CEOs' statements came just days after Anthropic revealed that its chatbot, Claude, was being used to attempt to create bioweapons, spy on Ukraine and scam dating-app users.
On Saturday, Amodei posted an article titled "We Must Pace the Frontier." "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," he stated.
On X shortly thereafter, Altman responded: "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier," he stated. Musk followed with only three words: "Dario is right."
wow, this is getting spicy! sounds like trump's still listening to sacks. weird that elon has signed on to this, i think he figures dems are going to sweep, so regulatory capture is going to happen, so he might as well get in on it now.
giving decels the benefit of the doubt, i think they've realized this thing is incredible at hacking and could easily be used to cause massive social and financial problems. they all need to coordinate on frontier security and federal liability laws.
the cynical take, which i'm partial to, is that they've realized they can't compete with open source, and there is so much fucking money on the line that they need the government to step in and protect the economy. we have basically bet the house on this.
Date: September 13th, 2026 12:27 PM Author: Submissive blue plaza
This is one of Trump's one redeeming aspects, that he is not in favor of regulating and slowing AI. It is already too guardrailed just by the dorks who run these companies. Imagine how bad it will be with a lib president passing laws?
Date: September 13th, 2026 12:27 PM Author: Peach aphrodisiac menage
He and everyone else can see that the calls to slow down AI development by the three most advanced AI developers are just an attempt to create a regulatory moat to exclude new market entrants and therefore decrease competition
Date: September 13th, 2026 12:28 PM Author: Submissive blue plaza
Yeah that's pretty likely. Only time Musk starts crying "ai scary" always has to do with competition. He did this for years after he got ousted from open ai. Then once he started xai he was constantly bragging about how powerful it was getting. With Dario its actually part of his shtick to be Concerned about safety.
Date: September 13th, 2026 12:29 PM Author: jade school boiling water
what does the US get if it "wins" the AI race, like more realistic AI pornos? if china wins they will use it to build amazing robots and factories but US? rofl jews arent gonna use this for anything good
Date: September 13th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: Submissive blue plaza
It isn't really a "race". Only way that works is for competitive military tech like nukes or whatever where you are doing it specifically for your govt and military. Not some big tech companies doing it to make money. So they don't really get anything, but I don't want it to slow down. I want newer and more powerful AI models. Fuck libs.
Date: September 13th, 2026 12:35 PM Author: jade school boiling water
ljl its the US pretending its a race, china is just styling and chillin knowing they will perfect real world AI while US is making trannie cock AI vids furking golden retreivers