Trump lashes out at Dario Amodei after the Anthropic CEO called for a slowdown in AI development

On Monday, President Donald Trump lashed out at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after Amodei published an essay urging a slowdown in global frontier AI development.

"The Trump Administration has stopped AI 'people' from doing bad, or potentially bad, 'things,' like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a 'perfect little angel' - and we will continue to do so!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump repeated his long-held belief that the US needs little regulation of the industry, especially with him in charge.

"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!" Trump wrote.

On Saturday, Amodei published a new essay where he said that recent developments, including rogue OpenAI models breaching Hugging Face, have convinced him that frontier labs like Anthropic need "to pace" AI development.

"We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," Amodei wrote. "Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain."

In response, other AI leaders issued similar calls. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X, "Dario is right." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he agreed "with Dario that we need to pace the frontier."

Trump also reiterated his belief that China is benefiting from the backlash to data centers.

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"There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China," he wrote.

Trump concluded that "Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!"

Separately, Vice President JD Vance questioned why so many AI companies are calling for regulation.