Trump Links AI Alarm to Climate Denial — SkimNews
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- President Trump posted on Truth Social earlier this week in response to rising public concerns about artificial intelligence, framing the debate through the lens of past climate predictions.
- Trump wrote in his post that "the same people" who warned "we'll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming" — a term he said was "reborn" to "Climate Change" — are now raising AI alarms, asserting "the Planet was cooling."
Why it matters: By merging AI skepticism with climate denial in a single Truth Social post, Trump is preemptively casting doubt on expert warnings across two policy fronts at once. The rhetorical move gives his base a unified narrative that urgency around emerging technology is historically overblown, complicating future regulatory debates on both AI and climate.
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