Americanswers… on 5 Live! Is Donald Trump the only regulation AI needs?
episodePreviously titled “Americanswers… on 5 Live! Can Trump convince voters a “High IQ” president is the only guardrail AI needs?” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 16, 2026
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Why is Donald Trump doubling down on AI at the very moment that the bosses of AI warn that the technology needs to be slowed down? Also, why is Donald Trump suddenly in favour of the unification of Ireland? When it comes to giving every American citizen five thousand dollars if the Republicans win both houses of Congress in the midterm elections, how realistic is that? And another big question from Congress. Mitch McConnell, the former leader of the Republicans in the Senate, is back now, or is he? And why does it matter so much? Welcome to America Answers.
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It's the first time I've had those uh news titles. A never ending supply of interesting sound bites that America produces. Long may it continue. Uh on the subject of which we've just had some breaking news from uh the AFP, Donald Trump blasts sick conspiracy against AI. Uh this is uh further comments from the president on artificial intelligence. So over the weekend we had two more AI bosses, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, backing the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodi, who'd called to slow down the pace of AI development. He had warned AI Swarm could become capable of taking over the entire internet within a year. Well, speaking on his trip to Ireland, President Trump was asked about further regulation yesterday.
We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins. And uh we could put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces in a bringing it up. That uh shouldn't be bringing it up. And they're bringing up things that won't happen.
Why is President Trump pushing back against calls to slow down AI development?
But whoever wins with AI wins.
That's what Donald Trump has said. Right, we've got some questions uh on this exact topic. Robin emails Americast at BBC.co.uk. We need to change our approach to AI and safety. Instead of regulating AI like an industry, should we be guiding its behaviour like you would bringing up a child? Kevin and Kent asks the BBC, how is it possible for a sh slowdown to be imposed, particularly as AI is close to the stage of recursive self-improvement, which won't need Need human intervention. Sarah. It doesn't sound like uh Donald Trump is about to heed these calls for a slowdown.
No. Um you're right. He is very, very clear and that he doesn't want to impose a kind of safeguards or regulations around AI companies that some of them they themselves are calling for. It was in a Truth Social post just a few minutes ago where he said there was a sick conspiracy against AI. And he also said the only controller guardrails that AI needs is a strong and smart high IQ president and the USA has that in spades. Um So that tells you where he is on the issue. What's interesting though is he's very, very far away from public opinion on this.
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