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Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson disagreed with AI industry leaders who called for slowing development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter advocating reduced pace of AI advancement, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Alphabet's Demis Hassabis publicly supported. Trump and Johnson's specific objections were not detailed in the available text.
