Elon Musk had a contradictory week in AI, joining rivals Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Sam Altman (OpenAI) in calling for a slowdown in frontier AI development while simultaneously advising President Trump to oppose an industry-funded regulator. This position was directly contradicted by Trump, who called fears of runaway AI a « hoax, » and by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said AI companies need to go faster. Behind the scenes, the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk joined Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in urging Trump to reject a sector regulator, while SpaceX completed the largest IPO on record and xAI signed a contract worth up to $1.25 billion per month with Anthropic. Musk’s back-and-forth between public safety calls and regulatory battles illustrates a pattern documented by AI ethics researchers, while independent organizations argue that industry self-regulation is insufficient to protect the public.
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