Trump backs the AI race as lab insiders warn of runaway systems
The White House is treating AI safety as a race with China, not a brake pedal: Trump says losing the lead would put the U.S. in a “very bad position” and dismisses extinction concerns. Inside the labs, the warnings are getting harder to ignore. OpenAI alignment researcher Jasmine Wang called speeding toward recursive self-improvement dangerous, while chief scientist Jakub Pachocki said nobody is prepared for what comes next. That collision now reaches Congress, where bipartisan lawmakers are pushing frontier-model oversight.