DOMINANT ANGLE
Buenos Aires is questioning the contrast between the optimism displayed by Trump on artificial intelligence and the warnings coming from the industry itself, up to its own ranks of researchers.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- 01
On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Elon Musk (xAI) converged on a call to slow down the development of the most advanced AI models.
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On Monday, September 14, on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the only necessary safeguard for AI is "a STRONG AND INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT" and that China would be the only beneficiary of a slowdown.
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British researcher Jacob Coxon, 27, left OpenAI and then Anthropic, accusing them of "jugar con nuestras vidas" and claiming he fears AI will "kill us all before the end of the decade".
ANALYSIS
Buenos Aires, Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The Argentine press is reconstructing, article by article, the confrontation between Donald Trump and the very architects of artificial intelligence that he defends. On Saturday, September 12, the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI — Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk — converged on an unusual warning in an industry marked by fierce competition: it is necessary to slow down the development of the most advanced models to strengthen security measures. Altman announced that OpenAI would adopt one of the measures suggested by Amodei, giving independent evaluators comparable access to that of employees to monitor the risks of its systems. La Nación emphasizes that the first to sound the alarm was Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude, before being joined publicly by Altman and then by Musk.
On Sunday, from the Doonbeg golf complex in Ireland, Trump dismissed the alert: "I think there are many negative forces that are raising the issue when they shouldn't, and are posing things that are not going to happen." On Monday, on Truth Social, he went further, evoking a "sick conspiracy" behind the rejection of data centers by voters and assuring that "the only one who is happy with this is China." He added: "The only control or 'safeguards' that AI needs is a STRONG AND INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT," before warning "conspiracy theorists, seditionists, traitors, and leakers."
Perfil also relays the testimony of Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British researcher who left the industry after three years spent pre-training models, first at OpenAI and then at Anthropic. He accuses the two companies of "playing with our lives" and affirms that "the people who build AI firmly believe that it could kill us all before the end of the decade." The +Perfil channel reports, via journalist Norman Powell, that Trump, while ruling out increased state intervention, nonetheless recognizes the need for "some security mechanism," his obsession remaining not to lose the advantage over China. In Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson warned against too rapid regulation.
SOURCES (2)
- La NaciónMEDIUM
- PerfilMEDIUM
- Trump ataca al CEO de Anthropic por pedir que se frene el desarollo de la IA
- Trump calificó de "fuerzas negativas" a las voces que quieren ralentizar el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial
- RDC: Trump rechazó una mayor intervención del Gobierno en la inteligencia artificial para no perder ventaja frente a China
