Trump’s opposition to AI rules undercuts industry's calls for a slowdown
Summary
AI company leaders like Dario Amodei from Anthropic and Sam Altman from OpenAI recently called for slowing AI development and proposed safety measures including third-party evaluators embedded in AI companies, but President Trump publicly opposed any new AI regulation, claiming only strong presidential leadership is needed. Amodei's proposal suggested having independent evaluators (like METR, a nonprofit that assesses catastrophic risks from AI systems) monitor AI safety and establishing international safety standards, though critics argue the plan lacks clarity on who decides standards and enforces them.
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Amodei proposed that frontier AI companies like Anthropic provide evaluators 'employee-like access' to monitor and verify model safety, and called for establishing safety standards among democratic countries with coordination between democratic and authoritarian governments 'to the extent this is possible.' He specifically cited METR (a nonprofit evaluator) as an example model for this oversight approach.
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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/trump-opposition-to-ai-rules-undercuts-industrys-calls-for-a-slowdown.html
First tracked: September 15, 2026 at 08:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%