Hands-off: Trump rejects calls by AI leaders to increase regulation and slow development, citing Chinese competition Washington Post | September 14, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/14/hands-off-trump-rejects-calls-by-ai-leaders-to-increase-regulation-and-slow-development-citing-chinese-competition/ President Donald Trump on September 13, 2026, brushed off calls from three top AI leaders — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and xAI’s Elon Musk — to slow the pace of AI development, insisting the US can’t afford to cede ground to China, as The Washington Post’s Cat Zakrzewski reports.