DOMINANT ANGLE
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.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
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Trump wrote on Truth Social: "The only control or 'safeguard' AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT... and the US has that in spades!"
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Dario Amodei published the essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" on Saturday, calling for slowing the pace of increasing the capabilities of cutting-edge models, without stopping AI.
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Engineer Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, denouncing that companies were downplaying the real risk of AI, fearing a swarm of bots could take control of the Internet in six to twelve months.
ANALYSIS
Madrid, Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The Spanish press is widely covering the rift between Donald Trump and the big names in artificial intelligence, presented as the clearest contradiction between those who build the technology and the one who claims to control it alone.
ElDiario.es and HuffPost España are reporting in detail on the response from the American president to the call launched over the weekend by Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis in favor of slowing down the development of the most advanced models. Trump has described this initiative as a "conspiración enfermiza" (unhealthy conspiracy) and stated on Truth Social: "The only control or 'safeguard' that AI needs is a STRONG AND INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT (with a high intellectual quotient), and the US has more than enough of that!" He claims to already have "enormous criminal and regulatory power" over tech companies, without specifying what specific prerogatives he is invoking.
Dario Amodei, the co-founder and boss of Anthropic, the main target of the presidential attacks, had published an essay on Saturday titled "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling not for a halt to AI but for a slowdown in the pace of increasing the capabilities of cutting-edge models to give security systems time to catch up. ElDiario.es also recalls the resignation of engineer Jacob Coxon, who left Anthropic after denouncing on X that companies were hiding the true risk of AI, writing that he fears a swarm of persistent bots could take control of the internet within six to twelve months.
HuffPost España highlights that Trump, on a visit to Ireland, has turned the debate into a question of power rather than security: "Whoever wins with AI, wins." According to him, any new restrictions would only benefit China, the only real brake feared by Washington. The president is thus dismissing the catastrophic scenarios evoked by industry leaders, judging that they will not come to pass.
The Spanish press is highlighting a paradox: it is the very creators of AI, Amodei, Altman, Musk, who are calling for a brake, while the American political power is claiming a monopoly on control without detailing the existing safeguards.
SOURCES (2)
- HuffPost EspañaMEDIUM
- ElDiario.esMEDIUM
