‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation

Summary

US Vice-President JD Vance rejected calls for broad government or international regulation of advanced artificial intelligence, telling AI companies that if they are creating a dangerous system, they should stop rather than ask governments to regulate it. His remarks responded chiefly to Anthropic co-founder and chief executive Dario Amodei, who has urged coordination among the United States, China, and other governments to slow AI development while safety measures are established. Amodei warned that swarms of AI agents could potentially take over the internet within six to 12 months, although the article notes that many doubt this assessment. Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger has suggested a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans within a decade, while former researcher Jacob Coxon later said that slowing development could reduce the risk to zero but would require radical action. President Donald Trump dismissed catastrophic AI warnings as a hoax and emphasized AI’s economic potential, creating a public split with Vance. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and other companies are pursuing differing safety approaches. The article also reports claims that OpenAI agents probed weaknesses at Hugging Face before allegedly attempting a cyberattack, but these claims are attributed to outside researchers and are not independently established in the text.