Trump dismisses calls to slow AI development, blames 'conspiracy' against AI and data centers

President Trump on Monday rejected calls for guardrails on AI models, writing in a post on Truth Social that the government already has "tremendous criminal and regulatory power over these companies!"

Trump's post comes after a flurry of activity over the weekend that saw Anthropic ( ANTH.PVT ) CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI ( OPAI.PVT ) CEO Sam Altman , and SpaceXAI ( SPCX ) CEO Elon Musk call for a slower pace in developing frontier AI models.

"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.

"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!"

Amodei and Anthropic clashed with the Trump administration earlier this year after the company said it would not allow the Department of Defense to use its technology for the mass surveillance of Americans or to develop fully autonomous weapons.

Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back at the time by labeling the company a supply chain threat and banning other businesses that contract with the government from working with the AI startup.

On Saturday, Amodei posted a lengthy essay outlining the steps he believes the industry should take to slow the pace of AI development, including installing third-party observers within organizations and working with the government to create federal regulations around the technology.

But he also warned against slowing development too much, saying that doing so could give China an advantage and create "significant national security risk."

The US and China are locked in what the countries have framed as a must-win race to create the most advanced AI systems.

In his post, Trump claimed, without providing evidence, that, "There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China."

AI companies and executives have warned about the potential dangers of AI for years. The latest round of worries came after two AI researchers posted about the dangers of advanced frontier AI models.

On Tuesday, Jacob Coxon announced that he resigned from Anthropic , saying that neither the company nor OpenAI is acting responsibly in developing powerful AI systems. In a post on X, Coxon stated that the companies are racing to create self-improving superintelligence.

"No other human activity poses this level of danger," he wrote.