{"id":24974,"date":"2026-09-18T07:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/is-trumps-ai-obsession-walking-the-world-into-disaster-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:38:02","slug":"is-trumps-ai-obsession-walking-the-world-into-disaster-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/is-trumps-ai-obsession-walking-the-world-into-disaster-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump\u2019s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a \u2018hoax\u2019? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery<\/p>\n<p>Watch Jonathan Freedland on our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@politicsweekly\">Politics Weekly YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send your questions and feedback to <a href=\"mailto:podcasts@theguardian.com\">politicsweeklyamerica@theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the latest season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/series\/blackbox\">Black Box<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/audio\/2026\/sep\/18\/is-trumps-ai-obsession-walking-the-world-into-disaster-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f61f03adb43dbaa65520c5df9a732a8ef4c60824\/43_0_4379_3504\/master\/4379.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=706e10364c9b94f76db198166a6f4c99\" title=\"Is Trump\u2019s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? \u2013 podcast\" \/>Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a \u2018hoax\u2019? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery<br \/>\nWatch Jonathan Freedland on our new Politics Weekly YouTube channel<br \/>\nSend your questions and feedback to politicsweeklyamerica@theguardian.com<br \/>\nListen to the latest season of Black Box Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a \u2018hoax\u2019? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/is-trumps-ai-obsession-walking-the-world-into-disaster-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Trump\u2019s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24974"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}