One of President Donald Trump’s top advisers on artificial intelligence suggested Wednesday the recent deluge of warnings about AI from industry marks little more than a political ploy. 

David Sacks, who co-chairs President Donald Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, described the idea that “AI is going to end civilization within a very short amount of time,” which has been perpetuated as a possibility by Anthropic and OpenAI over the past week, as a “hoax,” during Politico’s Decoded Summit in Washington, D.C.