Trump calls AI warnings a “hoax” and says its only guardrail is “a strong and smart president”

Germany

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Berlin sees Trump's refusal as a geopolitical gamble: the race with China takes precedence over the calls for caution issued by America's own AI champions.

Argentina

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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.

Australia

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Critical comparison of the presidential stance · 8 of 20 countries

Canberra is bringing the race with Beijing, cited by Trump, against AI alerts back to its own diplomacy: a file that is now occupying its ambassador to Washington, Greg Moriarty.

Bangladesh

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Dhaka is highlighting the Chinese argument of Trump, for whom "the only one who benefits" from the doubt over AI is Beijing, in the face of an alert coming from within Anthropic itself.

Brazil

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Brasília sees Trump's move as confirmation that the technological rivalry with China takes precedence over any security concerns, with the White House transforming a debate on the dangers of AI into an argument for geopolitical supremacy.

Canada

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Ottawa is distinguishing its approach from Washington's: rather than dismissing AI alerts, the Carney government is proposing a global "technological stability" body to frame technology without hindering its economic growth.

Colombia

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Bogotá is feeling the stock market backlash from Trump's backlash against AI alerts, as Wall Street is already sanctioning chip manufacturers even before any regulatory arbitration in Washington.

Spain

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Madrid interprets Trump's move as validation of a doctrine where political power, rather than technical mechanisms, solely determines the limits of artificial intelligence, even if it means disregarding the warnings of its own experts.

United States

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The United States government addresses the issue of safeguards with a personal formula: Trump himself claims the role of bulwark against AI, bypassing Congress and industry, as a rift opens between Republicans just a few weeks from the midterms.

France

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Paris sees the outburst as a round that is primarily a domestic political move, where Donald Trump is relying on the rivalry with China to block any regulation before the midterm congressional elections.

Ghana

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Accra is measuring the gap between the alarm sounded from within the very AI labs themselves and the presidential denial, with Donald Trump seeing the rivalry with Beijing as yet another reason to reject any safeguards.

Hungary

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Budapest sees in Trump's remarks a familiar reflex: the concentration of control power over AI in the sole hands of the head of the executive, presented as a sufficient safeguard against the warnings of researchers.

India

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New Delhi is mainly focused on the economic stakes of the dispute: behind the duel between Donald Trump and the AI bosses, it's the race with China and the fate of data centers that interests the Indian press.

Italy

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Rome sees Trump's diatribes on AI as a new episode in the showdown with Beijing, just ten days before Xi Jinping's visit to the White House.

Pakistan

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Islamabad is more focused on the lead over China that Trump is hammering out in capitals on Truth Social, than on the debate over the risks of artificial intelligence itself.

Romania

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Bucharest notes a head-on confrontation between the White House and America's own AI pioneers, the Romanian press quoting Trump's formula that establishes his own authority, rather than a new rule, as the sole safeguard.

United Kingdom

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London is dissecting the political calculation behind Trump's stance, more concerned with outpacing China and holding onto his base than with heeding the warnings of his own AI experts.

Russia

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Moscow sees Trump's refusal to regulate AI as an argument in the rivalry with Beijing, rather than as a response to the security alerts from American laboratories.

Singapore

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Singapore sees in Donald Trump's remarks an additional sign of the technological race with Beijing, rather than just a simple American domestic security debate.

Sweden

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Critical comparison of the presidential stance · 8 of 20 countries

Stockholm is particularly struck by the contrast highlighted by its press: the giants of artificial intelligence are themselves warning of a "domedagen" scenario, while Trump dismisses these alerts as a conspiracy.