Vance calls AI regulation push a "Trojan horse"

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Vice President JD Vance on Monday expressed skepticism about tech leaders sounding the alarm over the rapid development of artificial intelligence and asking the government to regulate the industry, calling it "a bit of a Trojan horse." "I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them," he told reporters before departing for Kansas City. "It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse." In recent days, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have called for slowing the development of AI and stronger safeguards. Mr. Amodei, who leads the world's most valuable AI startup, published a 3,800-word essay on Saturday warning about the existential risks of AI development. "Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in r