Trump Tells 60 Minutes the Justice Department Warned the Head of a Big Super Intelligence (SI) Company to 'Get Ready to Go to Jail'
WASHINGTON — In his 60 Minutes interview aired on November 8, President Trump said his Justice Department had sternly warned the head of one of the big super intelligence (SI) companies to 'get ready to go to jail,' after which the person 'totally changed everything.'
Interviewer Ross Douthat asked why Trump was not worried by the doom warnings from the people building SI, some of whom put the chance of disaster at more than 10 percent. Trump said the risk was 'not nearly as real' as claimed and could be managed, with the Justice Department as one means of managing it. 'We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI,' he said, using the older term. 'We called them very strongly and said, Get ready to go to jail. Please give your wife a kiss good night.'
Asked whether the person led a major company, Trump said, 'One of the big ones. Yeah.' He declined to name the person or the company and gave no date or details of the alleged conduct, saying only that the person answered 'Yes, sir,' and adding, 'I don't think it was done maliciously. But it coulda been malicious.'
In the same segment Trump said he did not mind guardrails but would not let the United States fall into second place, and said China has no guardrails.
Some commentary has linked the remarks to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Politico reported in September that the White House confronted Anthropic in June over security concerns involving its Claude model and that Trump reportedly said he wanted to send them to jail. The White House, the Justice Department and Anthropic have not confirmed that the 60 Minutes remarks refer to that episode, and the Justice Department has not commented on the new remarks; this report presents that link as unconfirmed.
(Source: CBS 60 Minutes)
Source: CBS 60 Minutes
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