Donald Trump dismisses AI warnings saying his goal is beating China

President Trump has brushed aside a series of warnings about the risks of AI, which have come from leaders of the biggest US companies developing the technology. Donald Trump told reporters they were bringing up things that won't happen and said his goal was to beat China

in the race to develop AI. The boss of the firm Anthropic has called for a break on development and much tighter regulation, a call supported by OpenAI and other leading companies, as Ben King reports. >> Three bosses of top AI firms, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk,

and Sam Altman, have agreed that the dangers are so great that development should slow down and government should step in. President Trump in Ireland seemed >> We're leading China in AI. We're most sophisticated country in the world.

And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins. And we can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative voices that are bringing it up.

That shouldn't be bringing it up and they're bringing up things that won't happen. >> We think it's the best model we've made for complex work. >> This week a researcher at Anthropic, one of the leading

AI labs, quit. He made headlines around the world with his warning that there was a more than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans. >> The dizzying rate of progress means that things that were

previously in the realms of science fiction are now like becoming reality. To give like a concrete example, AIs can hack. They could hack into where, say, people are making viruses autonomously produce deadly viruses.

That's one very easy >> His former boss, Dario Amodei, published an essay calling for stronger controls on AI development. And in a rare show of unity, two other bosses backed him. Elon Musk wrote on his social media platform X, "Dario

is right." Sam Altman, the boss of Open AI, said he would delay the stock market launch of his firm and endorsed Am Ad warning. >> We need to slow down. We need to make this technology carefully, and we need

to make sure that the our our safeguards, our ability to understand it, our ability to control it keeps up with the pace at which the technology is happening. >> China is also in the race with models like Deep Seek.

A plan to regulate AI will need Chinese agreement and support from the US government. President Trump didn't seem keen on either. Am Ad A said he still believes the technology can bring great benefits, such as helping with the fight against

He said slowing down AI won't be easy, but we owe it to humanity to try. Ben King, BBC News. >> Well, our business editor, Simon Jack, is with me. What do all these announcements in recent days mean about

the business of AI and how it's running? >> Well, you have that drumbeat of increasingly alarming warnings about what's going to happen to humanity. You also had the announcement they're going to delay the initial public offering, the share sale of Open AI till

next year. Now, Wall Street will be disappointed. They love an IPO, get a bit of a buzz going, something new to invest in. It raises animal spirits, and obviously threat of human extinction

can douse those animal spirits pretty quickly. And it is true that when you sell these shares, you do need to give some kind of guidance on the speed of advancement and regulation and geopolitics and how it's all going to work.

So, that's going to be very difficult to do. But at the moment, wider financial markets, I don't see a big hit here because at the moment this talk of slowing down is just that. They're all saying, "Are you slowing down?