Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, supports demands for a slowdown in AI development. A former Anthropic researcher told the BBC that AI staff are genuinely frightened over the fate of humanity. OpenAI's boss and Elon Musk are supporting putting brakes on what they call reckless AI development. US President Trump sees it another way. He says whoever wins AI wins, and downplays risks as things to be ignored.
The warnings are coming from industry leaders and researchers. They are calling for care prior to the next steps. Trump's view stands in stark opposition to those concerns. He argues the race for AI superiority is more important than any downsides.