Trump Dismisses AI Extinction Warnings, Cites China

Jacob Coxon, who said he had worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI over the past three years, resigned from Anthropic and called on other researchers to rethink their work, saying the two companies are acting irresponsibly with technology that poses an existential threat. "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," he wrote on X.

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told employees the company is considering slowing development of its most advanced models and hoped rivals would do the same, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the private remarks who asked not to be identified.

Trump, departing Dallas, dismisses the extinction question and reframes the stakes as a race: "I have concerns that if we don't win AI, we're going to be put in a very bad position." He added that the U.S. is "leading China right now by a pretty good period. I would say a year, which is, you know, considered a lot."

The New York Times publishes an opinion piece arguing AI may drive the next 9/11, warning that AI-enabled cyber and biological attacks threaten not just American lives but the American government itself. RealClearPolitics, writing from the right, warns separately that Coxon's fight is the opening round of "AI information wars and psyops."

Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater, one of the world's largest hedge funds, warns on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast that AI will kill people before it is curbed, and likens the moment to February 2020 — the eve of the pandemic. The Telegraph publishes its own scenario piece on what an "AI Armageddon" might look like, including a rogue AI agent producing a biological weapon.