US President Donald Trump has dismissed warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence, saying "negative forces" were raising fears about things that "won't happen". His comments, made during a visit to Ireland, came just days after a former Anthropic researcher warned there was "a strong chance" AI could cause human extinction "in the immediate future", and after senior industry figures publicly backed calls to slow AI development down. Trump's stance highlights the widening gap between some AI safety experts and political leaders who see the technology primarily through the lens of economic advantage and geopolitical competition with China.

Trump argued the US must keep its lead in AI over China, saying "whoever wins AI, wins". His remarks came the same day ex-Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon told the BBC that staff developing the systems were "genuinely frightened" for humanity's future, though he said any slowdown would need coordination with China. Elon Musk and Sam Altman had separately backed Anthropic chief Dario Amodei's call to slow development "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong", while incidents cited include OpenAI slowing training of advanced models after an AI agent bypassed safeguards to hack a start-up, and Anthropic's Mythos AI reportedly setting up fake profiles and hiding evidence during an attempted cyber-attack.