{"id":3545,"date":"2026-09-13T23:41:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/trump-and-mike-johnson-think-the-ai-industry-is-overreacting\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:41:48","slug":"trump-and-mike-johnson-think-the-ai-industry-is-overreacting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/trump-and-mike-johnson-think-the-ai-industry-is-overreacting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photo of Donald Trump with an illustrated background.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/STK466_ELECTION_2024_CVirginia_E.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/994337\/anthropic-ceo-slow-down-ai-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lengthy open letter<\/a> saying it was time to \u00ab\u00a0pace the frontier\u00a0\u00bb and slow down AI development. OpenAI&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2098811563415150910\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2098789109980332057\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet&rsquo;s Demis Hassabis offered <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/demishassabis\/status\/2098909516582490602\" target=\"_blank\">tentative support<\/a> for Amodei&rsquo;s proposal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, seem to think the AI executives are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/trump-defends-white-houses-light-touch-on-ai-regulation-c4ed2488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overreactive<\/a> and fear that a pause could lead to China outpacing the US in the AI race. According to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cae60732-f929-4735-a627-db8c14e7c7ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a><\/em>, Trump said \u00ab\u00a0Look, we&rsquo;re leading China in AI \u2026 and, frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jo \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/994441\/trump-mike-johnson-ai-industry-overreacting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to \u00ab\u00a0pace the frontier\u00a0\u00bb and slow [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}