Washington, Sept. 14 -- US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) claimed that pushback against building data centres and expanding artificial intelligence is part of a "SICK conspiracy" that threatens America's technological edge over China, following Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow down the pace of AI development amidst fears of losing control.

Amodei has warned that AI development is accelerating rapidly, partly because AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to the development of the next generation of AI models. He has described this process as "recursive self-improvement" and said it could eventually outpace efforts to understand and control advanced systems.

Writing on Truth Social, Trump strongly rej...