Attorney General Todd Blanche and Speaker Mike Johnson blamed party panic. The warnings, though, came from inside the industry first — Anthropic chief Dario Amodei proposed slowing frontier AI on Sept. 13.
On Sept. 13, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei proposed slowing frontier AI gains after warning agent swarms could seize network infrastructure. On Sept. 15, Donald Trump rejected takeover warnings as a hoax during a call with Nvidia's chief executive.
Blanche cited the 50 days left before voting to call the debate a midterm stunt. Separately, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit after warning AI could kill humans by 2030.