Trump blasts Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over AI warning: SICK conspiracy

President Trump on Monday blasted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for urging AI firms to pace development, alleging the safety warnings are part of a “conspiracy” that could help China.In a Truth Social post Monday morning, Trump doubled down on his dismissal of safety concerns, writing: “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! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China.WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!“Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!”Public sentiment toward data centers and artificial intelligence has been souring for months, but safety concerns took center stage over the weekend after Amodei published a lengthy essay urging global tech giants to slow their development of AI models.OpenAI boss Sam Altman and SpaceX founder Elon Musk backed Amodei’s three-step plan to add guardrails to the rapidly progressing technology, which requires cooperation from AI rivals around the world.It comes after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at Anthropic and OpenAI, last week quit his job and warned that AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade” in a post on X that has racked up more than 171 million views.But the Trump administration has positioned itself as a friendly one toward the AI industry.

An executive order signed by the president in June encouraged a hands-off approach to AI regulation.So far in Trump’s second term, AI spending has helped prop up the economy.The Federal Reserve – which is largely expected to hike interest rates this week – has repeatedly mentioned massive AI capital expenditures as a highlight of the economy at meetings.Meanwhile, Amodei’s firm has a history of ...