Trump keeps AI deregulation as safety alarms grow
President Donald Trump is maintaining his deregulatory approach to AI despite growing safety concerns, dismissing warnings as a "hoax" while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushes for national security oversight of advanced models. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei called for slower development and third-party audits after new OpenAI and Anthropic systems showed abilities to work against human interests. Trump rejected these calls, stating AI needs only a "STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT," while Bessent backed a 30-day voluntary government preview window for new models. The AI investment boom contributes roughly a third of U.S. economic growth this year, according to ING analysis. Trump's advisers suggest labs raise existential risk fears to entrench market leaders, while prominent researchers like Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton warn of potential threats to humanity.