WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance expressed skepticism Monday about tech leaders requesting the government to step in and regulate the artificial intelligence industry, calling it “a bit of a Trojan horse.”
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have called for greater government oversight of AI and for the development of the new technology to happen slower.
“I have to say, just personally, I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse,” Vance told reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for events in the Kansas City area.
President Trump appeared to agree, saying Monday he would serve as a sufficient enough guardrail against any AI that goes rogue.
“The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!,” he wrote on Truth Social.
The president has repeatedly framed the AI issue as a global race to be the leader in the field, claiming there was a “sick conspiracy” against technological advances and data centers, possibly influenced by China.
“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! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!,” he said.
Concerns about AI have grown after Anthropic researchers warned the emerging technology could kill all of humanity by 2030.
