Trump and House Speaker Johnson publicly reject the Amodei/Altman pacing pledge this thread has tracked since 09-12, both citing China — the first political pushback against it

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President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson both publicly rejected the "pace the frontier" pledge this thread logged on 09-12 (Amodei's essay, matched by Altman within hours), each citing the race with China as the reason not to slow down. Trump said the US is "leading China in AI" and intends to keep it that way — "whoever wins AI wins" — while Johnson said a congressional moratorium would mean "we will lose the race to China," explicitly rejecting emergency regulation. This directly answers this thread's own standing watch question ("whether that converts into anything binding") in the negative direction for the first time: the two lab CEOs converged on a brake, but the executive and legislative branches converged the same week on rejecting one. Separately, The Register (09-14) reported Gartner chief research officer Daryl Plummer's on-record skepticism of the pledge's sincerity ("I will believe that when I see it... I don't trust billionaire altruism"), the first named industry-analyst pushback distinct from the political one. (itechpost, The Register)

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