US President Donald Trump briefly addressed his own use of artificial intelligence during an exchange with reporters, confirming he personally uses AI but declined revealing specifics. Asked directly, "Have you ever used AI yourself?," the US President responded,"Yeah, I use AI."When pressed further on what he uses it for, he replied,"I don't want to tell you that."The exchange came as President Trump has faced growing questions about AI policy following warnings from industry leaders and lawmakers over the technology's rapid development.More about US President Donald Trump's comments on personal AI useIn the brief exchange captured on video, President Trump confirmed using AI when asked directly but offered no elaboration beyond saying,"You can use AI for a lot of things."When a follow-up question sought specifics on what he uses the technology for, the President again declined to answer. The clip, shared widely on social media, showed President Trump, who appeared to be on board Air Force One, answering questions from the media.The comments came the same weekend the US President addressed AI policy more broadly during a trip to his Doonbeg golf course in Ireland. According to the Financial Times report of September 14, 2026, he told reporters,"We're leading China in AI... and, frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins."The President also dismissed calls for a development slowdown, saying,"You have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up and they're bringing up things that won't happen."US President Donald Trump pushes back on AI slowdown calls amid industry warningsPresident Trump's remarks followed a weekend of escalating warnings from AI industry leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who called for a more cautious pace of AI development, according to the Financial Times.CEO and co-founder of Anthropic Dario Amodei speaks onstage during the 2025 New York Times Dealbook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 03, 2025 in New York City (Source: Getty)The warnings intensified after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and told the BBC that staff developing AI systems were "genuinely frightened" for humanity's future. Speaking to ABC in a separate interview Coxon said,“The concept of building a superintelligence . . . it’s been likened to summoning an alien species. So I think thinking about it in terms of an alien mind that we don’t fully understand is pretty terrifying.”Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a Saturday essay that the industry "must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," calling for third-party monitoring and global coordination of safety standards.The administration pushed back on the proposals, with the US President's former AI adviser David Sacks writing on X (formerly Twitter) that companies should "stop pretending you need anyone else's permission" and "pace the frontier" themselves.David Sacks @DavidSacksLINKDario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.House Speaker Mike Johnson echoed the administration's stance during a CNN appearance, warning that rushed regulation "could smother American innovation" and cause the U.S. to "lose the race to China."Democrats offered a starkly different response, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries calling for "decisive action" and Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego accusing Trump and Johnson of "not meeting the moment," according to the Financial Times and BBC's reports.