Donald Trump
President of the United States · as of 2026-10-04 · source
US president whose administration revoked Biden's AI order, gated frontier model releases and in September 2026 renamed AI 'Super Intelligence' by executive order.
News mentioning Donald Trump (31)
- DNI Jay Clayton named AI czar to lead the White House 'Super Intelligence Force', with 120 days to report on AI risks ★★★★
The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday Oct 3, 2026 that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton has been picked as the Trump administration's AI czar. Clayton told the Journal he will chair a new White House task force called the "Super Intelligence Force" (SI, the term Trump prefers…
- Trump TIME interview: Amodei 'different than I thought', AI renamed 'SI', open to US stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic ★★★
In a TIME interview conducted Sept 28, 2026 and published Oct 1, President Trump said his views on Anthropic's Dario Amodei had changed after a White House dinner. He said he now calls AI "SI" (super intelligence) and will rename the AI Force accordingly. Asked about taking government stakes in…
- Newsom's final 2026 AI bill decisions: signs 'No Robo Bosses' (SB 947), AI-layoff notice and AI Transparency Act updates; vetoes healthcare-AI and smart-glasses bills ★★★
On Sept 30, 2026, his deadline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a final batch of 13 AI bills. They include SB 947, the "No Robo Bosses Act", which bars employers from relying solely on automated systems to discipline or fire workers. A 2025 version (SB 7) had been vetoed. The batch also…
- Pew Research: AI 'synthetic respondents' miss real survey answers by 12 points on average ★★
Pew Research Center compared answers from AI-simulated survey respondents (mainly Claude Opus 4.6, also GPT-5.1) with its American Trends Panel on nearly 300 questions from early 2026. The AI answers were off by 12 percentage points on average, stereotyped groups, overstated factual knowledge and…
- Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House; they sign a voluntary 'morally binding' Accord on Superintelligence, and Trump rejects new federal AI rules ★★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 President Trump hosted about 31 tech leaders and officials at a White House lunch on whether and how to regulate AI, after a month of lab leaders calling for a slowdown. Guests included Amodei, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Huang, Nadella, Musk and Speaker Mike Johnson. Afterwards…
- US launches America.gov, an AI chatbot portal to federal services powered by Gemini and Grok ★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 the Trump administration launched America.gov, an AI-powered search and chat portal that answers questions about federal services by drawing on about 29,000 federal websites. US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia (National Design Studio) said it runs on Google's Gemini and xAI's…
- Ted Cruz blocks the Warner–Schatz–Kim AI Risk Management and Security Act, which would give a federal AI Safety Board 45 days with frontier models before release ★★★
On Sept 29, 2026, the day of the White House frontier-AI accord, Sen. Ted Cruz objected when Democrats Mark Warner, Brian Schatz and Andy Kim asked for unanimous consent to pass their Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026 (introduced Sept 24). The bill would create a…
- Trump signs executive order 'Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence', ordering federal agencies to replace 'AI' with 'Super Intelligence (SI)' ★★★
On the evening of Sept 29, 2026, after the White House AI summit, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence". It directs executive departments and agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in…
- Pope Leo XIV says AI doom concerns are not 'fake news' and rebukes Nvidia's Jensen Huang for opposing regulation ★★★
On Sept 28, 2026, at a press conference on his flight back to Rome from a four-day trip to France, Pope Leo XIV said experts' warnings that AI could threaten humanity "should be taken seriously" and are not "fake news, as some have said". He singled out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who had announced…
- Bill Gates warns AI could drive events causing 'a billion deaths' and says industry self-regulation is 'insane' ★★★
On NBC's Meet the Press (Sept 27, 2026) Bill Gates said "AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths" and called for required, government-set safeguards and monitoring. On The Ezra Klein Show (Sept 29) he said AI "crossed the cyber threshold and ... the bio…
- SNL's Weekend Update parodies Dario Amodei's AI-risk warnings (Jane Wickline) ★★
On Sept 26, 2026 Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update featured cast member Jane Wickline as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei trying to reassure the public about AI while blurting out alarming statements ("AI is the devil and I its maker"). The YouTube clip passed 1.1M views in four days. Commentators…
- US and China agree a 'Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue' and an SI-incident hotline during Xi's state visit ★★★★
A White House fact sheet released late on Sept 25, 2026, after Xi Jinping's Sept 23–25 state visit, set up a "U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue" on the risks and benefits of AI, next meeting by November. It also created a "bilateral communication channel for SI incidents", likened to a…
- Model Republic traces the September anti-'AI safety' online campaign to Innovation Council Action, a $100M pro-AI dark-money group ★★
On Sept 25, 2026 Tyler Johnston (The Midas Project) published an analysis in Model Republic arguing that the wave of attacks on AI-safety advocates in September, which called safety concerns a "psyop" or a "cult", was coordinated by Innovation Council Action, a nonprofit led by former White House…
- Memo circulating in the White House casts effective altruism as a cult that 'built the AI-doom pipeline', with Dario Amodei at its center ★★★
Axios reported on Sept 24, 2026 that a memo by a Trump political adviser, circulating in the White House, portrays effective altruism as a fringe, cult-like movement that "built the AI-doom pipeline". It names Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and president Daniela Amodei as core figures ("The Anthropic…
- Altman and Amodei ask the UN Security Council for international AI standards and incident reporting ★★★★
At a UN Security Council session on AI during the 81st General Assembly (Sept 23, 2026), Sam Altman (in person) and Dario Amodei (by video) separately urged governments to adopt international standards for measuring capabilities and risks, verification systems and AI security-incident…
- Rep. Ro Khanna's 'shadow hearing' with Hinton calls for a US–China AI pacing agreement; letters to DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot ★★★
On Sept 23, 2026, the day before Trump's White House meeting with Xi Jinping, Rep. Ro Khanna (ranking Democrat on the House China Select Committee) held a virtual "shadow hearing" calling for a binding US–China agreement to pace frontier AI. Geoffrey Hinton and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jack Shanahan…
- Trump at the UN General Assembly 'totally rejects' any global scheme to control AI and renames it 'super intelligence' ★★★★
In his Sept 22, 2026 UN General Assembly speech, Trump said the US "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" AI. He compared AI-risk warnings to climate warnings and said he would not "stifle growth". He also said he prefers "super intelligence" to "artificial"…
- UK PM Andy Burnham says the UK will use its 2027 G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement ★★
On the eve of the Sept 2026 UN General Assembly, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Britain would use its G20 presidency (2027, summit in Manchester) to broker a global AI deal: "a single set of global principles and standards". He pitched the UK, with its AI Security Institute and ties to the…
- Trump says he will form an 'AI Force' and name an AI czar, while calling AI-safety fears a 'hoax' ★★★
In a Truth Social post on Saturday Sept 19, 2026, President Trump said he would form an "AI Force", "much like I did Space Force", and soon name an AI czar ("Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!"). He said the government would "not in any way hinder or stifle" the industry and would police "BAD"…
- CNN: a chatbot-written intelligence report nearly led US forces to board a Chinese ship over fabricated nuclear cargo ★★★★
CNN reported on Sept 18, 2026, citing four sources, that an analyst at US Special Operations Command Pacific used an AI chatbot to fuse open-source and classified signals intelligence about a Chinese cargo ship; it wrongly concluded the ship carried nuclear-weapons components bound for Iran. The…
- Sen. John Kennedy's AI 'kill switch' bill is blocked in the Senate after Rand Paul objects ★★
On Sept 17, 2026 Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked for unanimous consent to pass a bill requiring developers of advanced AI models to build their own "kill switch" for shutting down a model that goes wrong. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected, so the bill did not pass. Kennedy's bill is separate from…
- Dario Amodei publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling for a deliberate slowdown ★★★★
On September 12, 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published 'We Must Pace the Frontier'. The essay argues that AI capability, especially through recursive self-improvement, is outpacing alignment and security, and lays out a three-part plan to slow the frontier. Anthropic unilaterally committed to…
- Dario Amodei and Gavin Baker debate AI regulation on X; David Sacks says Amodei wants a "DMV for AI" ★★
On 2026-08-15 Dario Amodei posted a rare long reply on X to investor Gavin Baker, who had argued that Amodei's warnings fed the US backlash against AI and data centers and that "Dario has lost the argument". Amodei called "concentrate via regulation vs. distribute widely" a false choice and backed…
- US government asks OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 release to approved partners ★★★★
On June 25, 2026 it emerged that the Trump administration (Office of the National Cyber Director and OSTP) had asked OpenAI to restrict GPT-5.6's initial release to government-approved partners over its cyber capabilities; OpenAI complied with a customer-by-customer approved preview from June 26…
- US export controls force Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5; access restored July 1 ★★★★
On June 12, 2026, three days after launch, the US Department of Commerce applied export controls after Amazon researchers found a way around Fable 5's cyber safeguards. Anthropic suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users. After Anthropic trained a stronger classifier that NIST's CAISI…
- White House sends Congress a National AI Policy Framework calling for preemption of state AI laws ★★★
On 2026-03-20 the Trump administration released a four-page National Policy Framework for AI urging Congress to pass a single federal AI standard that preempts 'unduly burdensome' state AI laws, while preserving state powers over child safety, fraud, zoning of AI infrastructure and states' own AI…
- Pentagon designates Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after it refuses surveillance and autonomous-weapons uses ★★★★
In late February to early March 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' after the company refused to let Claude be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous lethal weapons. The administration ordered agencies to phase Claude out. Anthropic sued on…
- US opens case-by-case H200 exports to China; Beijing slow-walks purchases ★★★
Following Trump's December 2025 decision, the Commerce Department's BIS on 2026-01-15 shifted license review for Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X exports to China from presumption of denial to case-by-case, under performance caps and conditions; Beijing initially discouraged purchases, then approved…
- White House releases 'America's AI Action Plan' ★★★★
The Trump administration published America's AI Action Plan with over 90 federal policy actions organized around accelerating innovation, building AI infrastructure and leading in international AI diplomacy, alongside executive orders on data centers, AI exports and 'woke AI'.
- Stargate: $500 billion AI infrastructure venture announced ★★★★
OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX announced the Stargate Project at the White House, pledging to invest $500B over four years in US AI infrastructure for OpenAI, with $100B deployed immediately.
- US Executive Order 14110 on safe, secure and trustworthy AI ★★★★
President Biden signed a sweeping executive order on AI requiring developers of the most powerful models to share safety test results with the government and directing agencies on AI standards; it was revoked by President Trump on 20 January 2025.
Posts (13)
- Aaron Rupar original ↗ Aaron Rupar @atrupar · x · 2026-10-01
Cited as a source by: 2026-10-01-trump-time-interview-amodei-si-stakes - Aaron Rupar original ↗ Aaron Rupar @atrupar · x · 2026-10-01
Cited as a source by: 2026-10-01-trump-time-interview-amodei-si-stakes - Stelter: read the transcript of TIME's new Trump interview original ↗ Brian Stelter @brianstelter · x · 2026-10-01
Most-viewed (~756k) post amplifying Trump's TIME interview on AI, Amodei and 'SI'. - Warzel on TIME's Trump–Grok anecdote: 'extremely bracing' original ↗ Charlie Warzel @cwarzel · x · 2026-10-01
Most-viewed post (~329k) on the TIME report that Trump consulted Grok before the Maduro operation. - 'Time's interview with Trump starts wild and only gets wilder' original ↗ Mikey Smith @mikeysmith · x · 2026-10-01
High-reach (~331k) reaction to Trump's TIME interview on AI. - Sanders: Trump says we don't need any AI guardrails because his 'oligarch friends' will self-police original ↗ Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders · x · 2026-09-30
Most-viewed (~344k) political reaction to Trump's rejection of AI rules at the Sept 29 White House AI summit. - Sen. Elizabeth Warren: taxpayers are subsidizing Big Tech AI data centers original ↗ Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren · x · 2026-09-30
Reaction from a sitting US senator (65K views) to the NYT Meta tax story. - Trump polls followers on renaming AI 'Superior', 'Extreme' or 'Supreme Intelligence' original ↗ Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · x · 2026-09-19
Origin of the administration's 'SI' renaming of AI; 15.6M views, the highest-reach AI post of the week. - Full text of Trump's Truth Social post announcing the 'AI Force' and an AI czar original ↗ Trump Truth Social Posts On X @TrumpTruthOnX · x · 2026-09-19
Mirror of the primary Truth Social post (TS Sep 19 2026, 1:12 PM ET) cited by the AI Force entry; 84K views. - Andrew Curran: Trump announces the US AI Force and a coming AI czar original ↗ Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · x · 2026-09-19
Most-viewed relay of the AI Force announcement (582K views). - "Dario is right" original ↗ Elon Musk @elonmusk · x · 2026-09-12
Musk's three-word endorsement of Amodei's slowdown essay, posted within about 15 minutes, turned the essay into a cross-industry story and moved markets (chip selloff coverage). - Dario Amodei replies to Gavin Baker on regulation, open weights and AI messaging original ↗ Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei · x · 2026-08-15
A rare long-form X reply in which Amodei backs pre-deployment testing of frontier and near-frontier open-weights models and rejects the claim that his warnings drove the AI backlash. - Where things stand with the Department of War original ↗ Dario Amodei (Anthropic) @AnthropicAI · blog · 2026-03-05
Confirms receipt of the formal designation letter, announces the lawsuit and narrows its scope; it also includes Amodei's apology for a leaked internal message.
Videos (6)
- Did the AI Bubble Just Pop?! Anthropic's Leaked Numbers are INSANE Tom Bilyeu · 2026-10-03
- The FTC Is Investigating OpenAI — Here's Why Prof G Markets · 2026-10-01
- "The Clodyssey" (Claude, another 12 hours; X video) anabology (@anabology) · 2026-09-30
- Amodei & Musk on AI risks C-SPAN · 2026-09-29
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Asked: After Trump Tech Summit, How Do You Feel About AI Slowdown Call? Forbes Breaking News · 2026-09-29
- Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg & Google's Sundar Pichai talk AI with Donald Trump USA TODAY · 2026-09-29
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