US President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about artificial intelligence safety as a "HOAX" in posts on social media, rejecting calls for more guardrails on the fast-moving technology. His comments followed an interview in which a co-founder of Anthropic said a mandatory kill switch may be needed.
The kill switch question
Jack Clark, one of seven founders of Anthropic, told the BBC that a way to shut off AI software completely if it becomes too dangerous is the kind of thing society "might want to eventually pass rules around". He asked whether governments should require companies to have a kill switch, and whether that switch should be verifiable by a third party.
Clark said AI systems are becoming more capable every few months, which he described as a source of risk. Under the idea he sketched, certain government agencies would gain the power to order that a system be turned off or limited.
Trump pushes back
Trump rejected any attempt to slow AI development. "AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX," he wrote. In a separate post he said there is a "SICK conspiracy" against AI and data centers, adding that whoever wins AI wins, and that China would be the only beneficiary of a US slowdown.
The exchange shows a widening split among policymakers. Lawmakers in Congress have not agreed on a framework for frontier models, for data center construction, or for the electricity those sites consume. Demand from data centers is one reason grid planners now expect US power use to rise after two decades of flat growth.
Hardware demand stays hot
Whatever the rules turn out to be, the hardware pipeline keeps expanding. Memory suppliers report tight capacity for high-bandwidth and server memory, and chipmakers are adding capacity for the accelerators used in AI training and inference. Prices for some consumer memory parts have risen sharply over the past year, and device makers have passed part of that increase to buyers.
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