AI industry wants to slow down

American AI leaders are calling for a coordinated slowdown in artificial intelligence development. President Trump wants to charge full steam ahead on the technology. Fox's Rebecca Castor has more from Capitol Hill where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing for regulations. After a stunning warning from a former anthropic employee last week that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade, industry leaders agree slowing down its development is necessary to reduce risks when we're trying to figure out how to put guard rails on these systems and they're vastly smarter than we are. It gets a little bit tricky. In recent months, AI models have created fake identities to try to pressure humans into approving malicious code, autonomously hacked into other sites and tried to evade shutdown. But President Trump says AI taking over the world, destroying humanity and all other things bad is a hoax and he doesn't want to lose the AI race to China. You have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse. I don't think Americans should be scared of anything on Capitol Hill. There is bipartisan concern about A. I. S. Rapid development and some lawmakers think it's time Congress steps in. The only system we have in place right now is the honor system, right? The most powerful technology in human history is being regulated by the developers themselves. Congress, I think has a role responsibility, but the people who are providing and creating these products obviously have responsibility as well. There are proposals from both parties on how to regulate A. I. But Republican leaders have shown no urgency in prioritizing the matter and any action before the midterms is unlikely on Capitol Hill. Rebecca Castor Fox News.