Trump dismisses push for AI regulation despite warnings from tech leaders

September 14, 2026 / 11:37 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — President Trump on Monday threw ice-cold water on the momentum for stronger guardrails around advanced artificial intelligence development, claiming the industry is already regulated and all that's needed is a "SMART (HIGH IQ) PRESIDENT."

The president's stance posted to Truth Social comes as Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk call for a serious slowdown on AI development. Democrats and a growing number of Republicans have also expressed skepticism about the development of increasingly capable large language 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!" Mr. Trump wrote, before going after Amodei, whose company is the developer of Claude. "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!"

"We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!" Mr. Trump continued. "There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one…

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