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Trump Says He Uses AI as He Resists Calls to Slow Development

September 14, 2026 at 08:26 EDT

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President Donald Trump said he uses AI “for a lot of things,” while rejecting calls for a broad slowdown in development and framing the technology as a strategic race the United States must win. His remarks, made during and after a weekend trip to Ireland, came as leading AI executives and safety researchers intensified warnings that frontier systems are advancing faster than safeguards.

Sept. 2026 · U.S. AI policy

Trump puts AI competition first

The president says he uses AI and argues the U.S. must keep its edge, even as lab leaders and safety researchers call for slower frontier development.

6-12

months cited as a potential agent-risk window

10%

extinction-risk estimate aired by a former researcher

companies and agencies cited in a prior AI-linked hacking case

The warning window, drawn to scale

6 months

lower bound

12 months

upper bound

The safety camp is arguing that agentic capability could become a near-term governance problem, not a distant theoretical one.

Competition view

The U.S. should keep moving quickly, preserve its China edge and use guardrails without a broad pause.

Safety view

Frontier labs should slow releases, open systems to stronger evaluation and coordinate internationally.

Policy pressure is building

Personal AI use→U.S.-China race→Guardrails debate→No settled law

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