Trump Declares AI Safety a Hoax as Tech CEOs, Congress, and Democrats Clash Over Regulation

President Donald Trump branded the AI industry's existential safety warnings a "sick conspiracy" in a Truth Social barrage Monday, dubbing himself the "Hoax Buster" and dismissing the alarm raised by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Elon Musk over the weekend. "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," Trump wrote, lumping AI doomerism with Russia collusion, climate change, Ukraine, and his impeachments. The move is a...