Trump dismisses AI extinction risks as more than a dozen OpenAI, Anthropic insiders call for a slowdown

President Trump dismissed concerns that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, prioritizing competition with China over safety worries. Meanwhile, multiple researchers at major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have publicly warned about risks from rapid AI development, particularly the danger of recursive self-improvement (RSI, a technique where AI systems improve their own performance without human intervention), with some employees saying AI could be catastrophic by the end of the decade.