Trump speaks the truth on artificial intelligence

Published September 16, 2026 6:00am ET



On the artificial intelligence revolution, President Donald Trump is right, and the prophets of doom are wrong.

Responding last weekend to calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to slow the development of frontier AI models, Trump responded, “You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up, and they’re bringing things up that won’t happen.”

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