President Trump rejected calls for artificial intelligence guardrails on September 14, denouncing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier model development and instead asserting that presidential oversight is the only control AI needs. In a post on Truth Social, Trump stated: "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" He further mocked Amodei, saying the executive is "now pretending to be a 'perfect little angel." Trump's comments dismissed concerns raised two days earlier when Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing that AI companies must deliberately slow capability improvements to allow safety work to catch up.
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