{"id":81400,"topic":"ai","source":"BBC","title":"Trump downplays AI risks after dire expert warnings and calls to slow development down - BBC","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v48vp31mdo","url_hash":"79abfbbd4a0cb964170675e36aa45237b343f2d9","author":"","summary":"<a href=\"https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1Va0d5eEp4ZUxtaHRQMU9obnE2UDFYcjlYV05YclYwcXA5c00wQU9hVEphQmcwOWdMUTRjblNoS0d3Mm5qRGVsSHBzbmdwQU00aV9vcXpTYWpoUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump downplays AI risks after dire expert warnings and calls to slow development down</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">BBC</font>","content":"Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China\nUS President Donald Trump has downplayed risks posed by artificial intelligence following days of dire warnings by experts.\n\"You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up and they're bringing up things that won't happen,\" Trump said during a visit to Ireland.\nOne of the warnings came from a former Anthropic researcher who said \"there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future\" if the current pace of development continued.\nOn Saturday, top industry bosses agreed and called for a slow-down. Trump did not directly address the idea, but said: \"We're leading China on AI... and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.\"\nTrump spoke on the same day AI researcher Jacob Coxon - who quit Anthropic a few days ago - told the BBC that staff who were developing the systems were \"genuinely frightened\" for the future of humanity.\nCoxon – who has also worked at OpenAI – welcomed the idea of a slowdown but said it would need to be co-ordinated with China.\nOn Saturday, Elon Musk, owner of xAI, and Sam Altman of OpenAI, backed a warning from the head of Anthropic Dario Amodei that the pace of development should be slowed \"to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong\".\nThe Anthropic CEO said any slowdown would have to be limited to avoid allowing China to pull ahead.\nThe issues surrounding AI have prompted fierce debate - and present a dilemma for many world leaders.\nOn one hand, the sector is seen as a huge opportunity to boost economic growth and a way to improve outdated digital systems and ways of working.\nBut there have also been a number of incidents where AI appears to have gone seriously wrong.\nIn August, OpenAI said it had slowed down training some of its most advanced AI models to improve security.\nAnd the same month it was disclosed two of the world's most powerful AI tools created fake human profiles to try and trick people in attempted cyber-attacks.\nThe UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) said in the most serious case, Anthropic's Mythos AI tried to gain access to a service by sending private messages, having set up fake accounts mimicking real people - then hid the evidence.\nThe weekend call by major AI executives sparked discussion in Washington, where lawmakers are facing pressure to address potential risks around rapid artificial intelligence developments.\nOn Sunday, Speaker Mike Johnson, the top House Republican, urged caution about rushing AI regulation during an appearance on CNN's Jake Tapper on State of the Union, arguing it could \"smother American innovation\".\n\"If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, and that is a threat to every single American,\" he said. \"So, we've got to have balance. 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In July, a group of House Democrats and Republicans introduced the Frontier Act, a bipartisan bill that seeks to establish a national safety and oversight framework for AI.\n\"Safety researchers are resigning, powerful AI models are breaking out of their labs, and companies are racing ahead anyway,\" Rep Lori Trahan, a Massachusetts Democrat who co-authored the bill, wrote on X this week.\n\"It's past time for Congress to get off the sidelines and do its job.\"","image_url":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/05d0/live/2a71c0a0-af92-11f1-bc1f-3f186ca4140c.jpg","lang":"en","published_at":"2026-09-13T16:29:27+00:00","fetched_at":"2026-09-13T18:15:04+00:00","status":"read","starred":0,"extract_state":"ok","summary_auto":"Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China\nUS President Donald Trump has downplayed risks posed by artificial intelligence following days of dire warnings by experts. \"You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up and they're bringing up things that won't happen,\" Trump said during a visit to Ireland.","cluster_id":null,"extract_retries":0,"extract_error":null,"contract_version":"news_item.v1","format_contract_version":"news_item_formats.v1","dedup_url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v48vp31mdo","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3741 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":3741,"summary_length":373,"usable_text_length":3741,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":3741,"summary_length":373}},"news_item":{"id":81400,"canonical_url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v48vp31mdo","source_url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v48vp31mdo","title":"Trump downplays AI risks after dire expert warnings and calls to slow development down - BBC","source_name":"BBC","author":null,"published_at":"2026-09-13T16:29:27+00:00","locale":"en","topic":"ai","tags":[],"rss_summary":"<a href=\"https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1Va0d5eEp4ZUxtaHRQMU9obnE2UDFYcjlYV05YclYwcXA5c00wQU9hVEphQmcwOWdMUTRjblNoS0d3Mm5qRGVsSHBzbmdwQU00aV9vcXpTYWpoUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump downplays AI risks after dire expert warnings and calls to slow development down</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">BBC</font>","full_text":"Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China\nUS President Donald Trump has downplayed risks posed by artificial intelligence following days of dire warnings by experts.\n\"You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up and they're bringing up things that won't happen,\" Trump said during a visit to Ireland.\nOne of the warnings came from a former Anthropic researcher who said \"there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future\" if the current pace of development continued.\nOn Saturday, top industry bosses agreed and called for a slow-down. 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