AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump's Team Says It's on Them

AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump's Team Says It's on Them Sam Altman and Elon Musk this weekend backed a call for restraint, after Dario Amodei called on Washington to slow AI development. Donald Trump, meanwhile, wants the US to maintain its lead over China. As calls for artificial intelligence regulation intensify, US President Donald Trump's team have made it clear that if lab leaders want to implement an industry-wide slowdown, they're going to have to do it themselves. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called on the US government to regulate AI companies within a wider effort to slow the pace of the technology's development in an essay published Saturday.