Trump says no need for more AI regulation, slams Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back against growing calls for greater regulation of artificial intelligence, and lashed out at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over his urgent plea for an AI slowdown."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 in a Truth Social post."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.The president's latest defense of largely unfettered AI growth came amid a sudden crescendo of leading industry voices raising alarms about the risks of the nascent technology.On Saturday, Amodei published a blog post titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing for slower development of AI models to "reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong."Days earlier, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job and issued a warning that the technology could "kill us all by the end of the decade," while accusing both OpenAI and Anthropic of "gambling with our lives."Other tech CEOs, including OpenAI ...