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U.S. President Donald Trump denounced on Monday a supposed "sick conspiracy" against artificial intelligence (AI), dismissing calls to slow down the pace of its development to prevent risks.
"There is a SICK conspiracy underway against AI and data centers, and the only one happy about it is China," Trump asserted on his Truth Social platform.
Markets reacted nervously on Monday, with tech stocks falling amid calls to hit the brakes.
Those calls, from independent observers and now from industry leaders, fuel fears that superintelligent computer systems could become uncontrollable and end humanity by creating pathogens or triggering a nuclear war.
Trump said the United States needs to maintain its lead in AI over China and particularly criticized the main promoter of this call, the head of the firm Anthropic, Dario Amodei.
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"The Trump Administration has stopped AI 'people' from doing bad, or potentially bad things, like Dario (Anthropic!), who now pretends to be a 'perfect little angel'," Trump accused.
"The only control or guardrail AI needs is a STRONG AND INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT (with a high IQ!), and the United States has one, and in abundance!" he claimed.
"Conspiracy theorists, traitors, and leakers, BEWARE!" he threatened.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defended on Saturday a coordinated slowdown in AI development to better understand the risks posed by the advanced capabilities of this technology.
He received public support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI head Elon Musk, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
"WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China and everyone else, and we will continue to do so," asserted Trump.
Trump had already criticized the apocalyptic warnings on Sunday to journalists, to whom he claimed he had spoken with the leading figures in the sector.
"We are not downplaying them," he said, referring to those warnings. "We know that [AI development] is going to be much more good than bad," he added.
China's spy chief warned on Sunday that artificial intelligence endangers the country's national security, stating that foreign powers could use the technology to threaten social order.
Minister of State Security Chen Yixin wrote in an article that AI is now "the main battlefield of global technological competition and a new track for strategic rivalry between major powers."
He specifically pointed to Claude Mythos, from Anthropic, and ChatGPT-5.5-Cyber, from OpenAI, for their advanced hacking capabilities which, potentially, "pose serious risks to China's critical information infrastructure."
- Concern from world leaders -
Global concerns about AI have intensified dramatically in recent days.
Britain's King Charles III will host representatives from major AI companies at a meeting in Scotland, a source close to the event said on Monday.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk also asked countries and artificial intelligence companies on Monday to act urgently to curb a technology that, he warned, poses "unprecedented risks."
In a letter sent to countries and AI developers and shared with the media, Türk warned that the world is "on the brink of an irreversible shift, which will affect not only us but generations of human beings to come."
The head of the French defense and technology group Thales also asked governments on Monday to take responsibility for regulating artificial intelligence.
Trump and some Republicans have so far resisted the growing calls to regulate AI, a key issue in the campaign for the midterm legislative elections in November.
But there are signs of a growing backlash in the United States.
American voters were already skeptical about energy-hungry AI data centers, which he supports, and now Democrats are calling for Congress to set guardrails for AI.
Vice President JD Vance, who maintains close ties to Silicon Valley, expressed his doubts on Monday about the fact that tech leaders have now joined the chorus of calls for state regulation.
"I find it a bit strange that you have so many leading AI companies going to the government and begging the government to regulate them," he told reporters. "It seems a bit like a Trojan horse to me," he added.
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