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title: "Trump, Mike Johnson push back on AI industry's slowdown calls"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/trump-mike-johnson-push-back-on-ai-industry-s-slowdown-calls-eff19b
source_name: "The Verge"
source_url: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994441/trump-mike-johnson-ai-industry-overreacting
published: 2026-09-13T19:41:48.000Z
topics: ["policy"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Trump, Mike Johnson push back on AI industry's slowdown calls

*2026-09-13 · Source: [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994441/trump-mike-johnson-ai-industry-overreacting)*

President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson said AI executives are overreacting to safety warnings, according to the Financial Times. Trump argued a pause could let China overtake the US in AI, saying "whoever wins AI wins." The comments follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's open letter calling to "pace the frontier," which Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis had voiced support for.

**Why it matters:** This is the first major political pushback against the industry's own safety-slowdown push, reframing the debate as a US-China race rather than a safety question. It signals the White House is unlikely to back voluntary pacing or new AI safety rules, which could blunt Amodei's push for industry-wide speed limits.

**Topics:** policy

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