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Trump Meets AI Executives to Discuss AI Responsibilities

By Drooid · Sep 15, 2026, 6:15 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

President Donald Trump said he alone guards against rogue AI and called regulation a “SICK conspiracy.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in a 3,800-word essay backed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
NBC News Decision Desk poll found 70% of adults more worried than excited about AI.
President Donald Trump scheduled a meeting with President Xi Jinping and AI executives to discuss responsibilities.

History

Historical Context

OpenAI announced GPT-2 in February 2019 and withheld the full 1.5-billion-parameter model, citing spam and fake-news risks; the complete version arrived in November 2019 after limited misuse was observed. The episode echoed a March 2023 open letter signed by over 20,000 AI leaders—including Elon Musk and Yoshua Bengio—calling for a pause on giant models, a stance that now informs global AI-oversight bills.

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Story summary

President Donald Trump said he alone guards against rogue AI and called regulation a “SICK conspiracy.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in a 3,800-word essay backed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
NBC News Decision Desk poll found 70% of adults more worried than excited about AI.
President Donald Trump scheduled a meeting with President Xi Jinping and AI executives to discuss responsibilities.

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