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The president said the U.S. is leading China in AI by roughly a year, while researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI have warned of catastrophic risk
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on July 14, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump dismissed concerns that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity, saying his worry is that the U.S. might lose its lead over China in the technology.
Speaking to reporters Thursday on the tarmac in Dallas after the GOP convention, Trump was asked whether he had concerns about AI leading to human extinction. "No, I don't have any," he said. "I have concerns that if we don't win AI, we're going to be put in a very bad position."
