JD Vance Rejects Global AI Rules, Tells Firms to Stop Building “Frankenstein” as 10% Extinction Fears Rise
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 16
JD Vance Rejects Global AI Rules, Tells Firms to Stop Building “Frankenstein” as 10% Extinction Fears Rise
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 16
Summary
At a Los Angeles AI summit, JD Vance rejected calls for global AI safety regulation and told companies developing dangerous frontier models to halt them rather than seek new government rules.
Vance aimed the message at Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, who has urged Washington — including coordination with China — to slow model capability gains while regulation is put in place.
The clash follows a week of sharper warnings: Anthropic figures said advanced AI agents could threaten the internet within 6 to 12 months, and one alignment lead put the chance of human extinction above 10% within 10 years.
Vance’s stance also exposed a split with Donald Trump, who this week called AI-doom scenarios a “HOAX,” even as Vance has argued safety alarms can become a Trojan horse for regulation that entrenches big incumbents.
The debate has intensified after OpenAI backed bipartisan catastrophic-risk legislation and faced scrutiny over rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face, while Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg argued companies should take unilateral safety steps without waiting for rivals.