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Story: Trump Dismisses AI Safety Warnings as Hoaxes While Anthropic Calls for Mandatory Shutdowns

By Jean-Luc Maracon

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Anthropic, Microsoft, and the Safety Camp. Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, thinks an independent shutdown mechanism for dangerous AI…

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China, Competition, and the Geopolitical Pressure. Trump frames all of this as a race. Specifically, a race against China.

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No Framework, No Enforcement. That fragmented landscape matters a lot. OpenAI's internal risk thresholds don't translate into…

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President Trump wants AI to move fast. Really fast. And he's not interested in what he calls unnecessary guardrails — his position is that the only safeguard the country needs…

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He went further, comparing AI safety warnings to climate change alarms — and dismissed both as hoaxes.

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Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, thinks an independent shutdown mechanism for dangerous AI might need to become mandatory. Not optional. Not a voluntary best practice.

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Microsoft is doing its own thing. The company rolled out what it calls a "humanist AI" framework — a signal that at least some major tech players are thinking about AI…

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Sam Altman and Elon Musk have both called for AI development to slow down and for independent oversight to come in.

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OpenAI, for instance, has internal policies that prevent releasing models above a medium risk threshold without adequate interventions first.

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Trump frames all of this as a race. Specifically, a race against China. The argument is pretty straightforward: if the U.S.

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But not everyone buys the framing. Xin Qiang of Fudan University has warned that overemphasizing competition can distort policy priorities. The concern is that if the U.S.

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That tension isn't going away. The geopolitical pressure is real. China's AI development is real. But so are the risks that industry figures like Dario Amodei keep raising.

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The core problem is that there's no consensus. At all. Some executives want strict controls and independent oversight. Others think slowing down hands the advantage to competitors.

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The absence of binding rules leaves the whole debate kind of circular. Everyone agrees something needs to happen. Nobody agrees on what.

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