AI slowdown push faces political and competitive hurdles

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U.S. President Donald Trump pushed back on Sept. 13 against calls from leading artificial intelligence executives to slow development, saying the United States must maintain its lead over China.

Speaking during a visit to Ireland, Trump said “negative forces” were raising concerns about “things that won’t happen.”

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had called a day earlier for a coordinated slowdown to give safety research time to catch up with advances in AI.