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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 15
Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump's AI Guardrails Claim After Truth Social Post
Updated
Updated · The New York Times · Sep 15

Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump's AI Guardrails Claim After Truth Social Post

3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 15

Summary

  • Jimmy Fallon used “The Tonight Show” to question Trump’s ability to manage A.I., joking he could not “beat Wordle” after the president cast himself as the technology’s safeguard.
  • Monday’s trigger was Trump’s Truth Social post dismissing calls for A.I. guardrails and saying the only control needed is a “STRONG AND SMART” president — “and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
  • Fallon sharpened the contrast by riffing that Trump would rename artificial intelligence “American Intelligence” and had only recently thought A.I. meant “American Idol.”
  • The exchange reflects a broader late-night pattern of turning Trump’s own social-media claims into punchlines, this time around his insistence that A.I. will be “more good than bad by a lot.”

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