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- Trump announced via a Saturday social media post that he will form an "AI Force" and appoint an AI tsar, offering no details or timeline for either move.
- Trump said his administration "will not in any way hinder or stifle" AI growth and pushed back against calls to pause development until better safeguards are put in place.
- Trump called AI safety concerns a "hoax," claimed AI could reach "as much as 25% of our Country's GDP," and said he wants the US to continue leading China — a rivalry expected to surface at his upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping.
- Trump said his administration will use existing criminal and civil justice systems to target "bad actors" using AI.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for industry-wide AI deceleration, regulation, and independent monitoring — a stance publicly backed by Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI; Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark separately told the BBC a third-party-verifiable "kill switch" may need to be mandatory.
- The UK's Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report calling for a new AI bill, arguing existing laws are ill-equipped to address the technology's rapid growth and human rights risks.
Why it matters: Trump is staking the US government's posture on full-throttle AI development at the exact moment the CEOs of frontier-model companies are publicly asking for the brakes and independent oversight. The AI tsar he is creating will inherit the job of championing an industry whose own leaders are requesting guardrails he has dismissed as a "hoax."
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