Donald Trump has a message for voters: they’re wrong. And he has a solution for the AI doomsday panic: just trust him, bro.
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei by name while warning of a “SICK conspiracy” against AI and data centers. “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!” he added, arguing that China would be the primary winner of an AI slowdown.
Trump also warned Americans not to “kill the Golden Goose,” the term he has used to refer to AI data centers. The president has argued that communities which try to resist the servers would end up “backwards and poor” while the rest of the country will reap the benefits of the extra jobs and added investment. The trouble for Trump is that some 61% of Americans oppose a new data center in their community, along with 54% of Republicans, according to a poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
