President Donald Trump on Monday rejected increasingly dire warnings about artificial intelligence, calling them a “hoax” and insisting the United States cannot allow fear of the technology to hand China victory in the global AI race.
“I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax – That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!” Trump wrote in one of six Truth Social posts. “This is even wilder than the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, or the Global Warming Scam.”
The warnings have come from the very companies leading the race. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called Saturday for developers to slow the advance of their most powerful systems, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk expressed similar concerns. Microsoft added to the debate Monday with a new code of conduct declaring: “AI should not exceed human control. Models should remain subordinate to humanity.”
Some online critics are calling the sudden, coordinated push an “op”—an effort by the largest AI companies to obtain regulations that would protect their positions by making it harder for smaller competitors to compete. That theory remains disputed, but Trump made clear he is not buying the industry’s warnings or its demands for Washington intervention.
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.
What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.
Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.
It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.
Structural financial… pic.twitter.com/fyqQeSLsC8
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) September 14, 2026
Trump accused Amodei of “pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’” and questioned why successful AI companies would seek rules that “will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy.” He instead argued that America’s principal safeguard is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.”
The dispute comes as the United States competes with China for control of a technology expected to shape economic and military power for decades. Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit the White House next week, while Beijing’s security minister has called AI “the main battleground for global technological competition.”
China is unlikely to stop developing increasingly powerful systems because American executives warn of catastrophe. Trump’s answer is that the United States should not slow itself down, either—a position that places him directly against industry leaders asking Washington to restrain the technology they created.
