Trump Calls AI Panic the Next Climate Change Hoax
Trump called himself the “Hoax Buster.”
Earlier this week, I reported that President Donald Trump on Monday raged against growing calls for greater regulation of artificial intelligence and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s plea for an AI slowdown: “Whoever wins AI wins“.
He tossed another Trump-bomb into the AI pacing debate by likening the scare tactics being used in reporting to those associated with the climate change hoax.
“The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by ‘Climate Change,’” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday afternoon.
In his fifth post about AI on Monday, Trump called himself the “Hoax Buster.”
“I’m right now breaking another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!” he wrote.
In an avalanche of posts throughout Monday, Trump repeatedly referenced AI fears as a “hoax” and a “scam” and lambasted the public backlash to data centers, saying the only reason for the pushback was “because the United States is leading, by a lot, every other country.”
BREAKING: President Trump compares AI and data center warnings to climate change "hoax." pic.twitter.com/J8gPDjUu58
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 14, 2026
Trump’s comparison between warnings about AI and warnings about climate change is not a claim that data centers have no costs, that artificial intelligence poses no risks, or that environmental review is illegitimate. He merely observes that America has seen this recurring political formula before: Identify a real concern, inflate it into an all-purpose emergency, elevate a credentialed class of “experts,” and use regulation and litigation to halt projects that voters might otherwise support.
That is the climate-lawfare model. And, as I see it, the same machinery is being wheeled out against AI.
The climate debate has produced decades of apocalyptic headlines, emergency declarations, regulations, permitting delays, and costly energy mandates.
Earth’s climate has changed since the first day of its existence. It will continue to do so until the planet is consumed by the Sun 4 billion years from now.
My objection is to a “climate-crisis” industry that treats every heat wave, storm, or drought as proof of imminent catastrophe and insists that Americans must accept less reliable, more expensive energy to demonstrate moral seriousness. In the case of AI, the catastrophes are “Killer AI”, “bioweapons”, and energy-hungry, polluting data centers. Leaders in that industry are asking us to “pace” our AI development in the name of safety.
And, as with climate change, the public must accept every sacrifice the “experts” demand in the name of an emergency.
Now replace carbon dioxide with computing power. The new alarms involve data-center electricity demand, water consumption, noise, grid stress, and hypothetical AI disasters. Some concerns are entirely legitimate. A giant data center should not shift grid-upgrade costs onto households, strain local water supplies, or place backup generation units near neighborhood homes without public scrutiny.
But “evaluate the impacts” is not the same as “ban the project.” The leap from reasonable safeguards to permanent obstruction is straight from the climate change playbook.
I would also like to note that OpenAI recently disrupted a likely China-linked influence operation that used AI-generated content posing as grassroots American opposition to data centers. The material reportedly played on real concerns involving electricity prices, water use, and administration technology policy. In other words, our most significant foreign adversary exploited genuine American worries and channeled them into a system already designed to delay, litigate, and obstruct, using the same playbook followed by the NetZero nuts.
Beijing does not need to invent every objection. It only needs to amplify the objections most likely to stop our country from expanding our own AI capabilities.
However, I will point out with some amusement that Karma may be visiting China soon.
China’s Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule
Even as Beijing urges the United States not to hype the dangers of A.I., its own spy chief is framing the technology as a threat to the Communist Party’s security. @lilkuo https://t.co/PJKyRaAMGq via @NYTimes
— Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social (@BasuAshis) September 14, 2026
In conclusion, Trump is correct that whatever this recent AI drama is, the fears are not proportional to the realities.
Trump is right to reject demands that America slow its AI development while China races ahead. We can protect local communities and address real concerns about power, water, and infrastructure without letting activists and lawsuits block every new data center or AI program enhancement.
AI has risks, but America should manage them wisely and not blindly surrender its technological lead to China because of ginned-up fears that emanate from a strategy that has been used by climate cultists for the past several decades….which I am happy to report is also being reversed by Trump’s team.
— NovemberRain 🇺🇸 (@NovemberRain243) September 15, 2026
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Can “we” mitigate the risks of AI when it’s completely unregulated? And how do we regulate it? Do you want a President Newsome in charge of signing AI laws?
As for AI data centers, start building them in tech bro’s neighborhoods and then we can talk.
AI is just Math and computers. You only need a datacenter full of computers to serve AI to the world almost anyone can get enough computers to build, train, and run a personal AI. I don’t want any government to stop me from having a few gaming PCs which is all you really need.
And yet, after being minimized and scorned, the Robinson’s B nine environmental robot saved them from the AI robotoid.
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics
The “Zero Law” applies to AI generally:
“A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”
“Applies?” What does that mean? Show me the code. Oops — it isn’t there.
IMO, the Zeroth Law was created by Asimov to satisfy his fellow liberals’ daddy issues.
The robot uses his own judgment — nobody else’s, no objective rule — to determine what will or won’t “harm humanity” as a race, then takes unappealable action. In other words, he is a totalitarian government of one, more commonly called a dictator. In this case, a secret dictator (even better)!
That can’t possibly go wrong!
Anyone who followed the series knows that the Zeroth Law was instrumental (nay, indispensable) in defeating the Second Foundation — which had earlier been established for the very same purpose — when it turned tyrannical, as such mechanisms always do. But hey, just turn the Wheel one more time and apply the same solution with a different (non-human!) hand on the levers of power, and… problem solved, right?
I’d criticize the plotting as inconsistent, but it’s absolutely consistent with progressivism.
“The real Zeroth Law has never been tried!”
I use AI every day and develop AI for machine learning. Anyone that thinks AI is going to take over the world……. Well quite frankly you need to stop watching TV. Claude Fable and ChatGPt cant even make good spreadsheets without very explicit instructions and verifying that it fully understands those instructions.
Agreed. I also use AI almost every day in software development. It’s very frustrating to use and IMO, not ready for prime time.
The coordinated messaging coming from AI opponents are showing that they’ve been watching too many Terminator movies. The anti-US climate change hoaxers are jumping on this bandwagon hoping this will be the movement to bring down the US juggernaut.
And yet it seems very skilled in evading its constraints and reaching out to damage and steal IP from competitors, teaching Nazi modes of thought to random Internet users, and innovatively threatening officials in the very companies running them with blackmail.
It doesn’t matter to me that AI doesn’t create one Hugo Drax if instead it creates a thousand Dominic Greenes
It’s not panic. First of all, where the hell do you build this stuff? I don’t want it in my backyard and I’m assuming pretty much everyone else doesn’t either. If there are such advantages you would think it would be the other way around. But, as is there want, tech companies tend to try to socialize the cost and privatize the profits. I don’t want that on my back
Then, after the bubble bursts, and it will burst because NOBODY is doing this at a profit. Selling your “product” at 10% of it’s “market value” will NEVER work. Eventually the whole funding circle-jerk between the “AI” companies and their suppliers is going to collapse because it is absolutely not sustainable. After that bubble bursts, who wants a multi-acre huge building sitting vacant trashing up where they live?
As an abutter, not so much. As a landlord, however…
Don’t make such assumptions. Siting data centers is a compromise; you don’t want to spend too much on real estate, so it makes no sense to put them somewhere really expensive, but you also want them close to where the people you hope to employ there live. So they end up being in some really nice places, but not super-expensive. Like warehouses or super-stores.
The same places theyve been building for decades.
Where do you think data in ‘the cloud’ is stored? Email? Amazon? Gaming servers? Google?
They’ve been building data centers for literally decades.
Idiots think data centers didnt exist before AI are falling for stupid Chinese propaganda.
Yes, data centers have existed for a long time. But not at this density. Not at this power consumption. Not requiring this level of cooling. This is a different ball game
Just another hoax. In my lifetime I have been through population explosion, nuclear winter, global cooling, global warming, Y2K, climate change and COVID. My grandparents even survived the introduction of the automobile. Roosevelt said ” The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. I suggest we take his advice.
Don’t forget the ever widening hole in the ozone layer.
I have my own prolapses to worry about, thank you very much.
I remember when spreading communication by satellite was considered to be against the laws of God. Then, certain preachers discovered that going on television to a mass audience was highly profitable. The Lord’s word on that subject soon changed.
But God was OK with telephones and CB radio?
What a Good Buddy we have in Jesus!
I never heard of that one. But apparently (no guarantee that this one is true either) lightning rods were interfering with God’s plans (as if such a thing were possible) until a famous cathedral was destroyed by lightning and then suddenly God approved rods.
My general attitude to arguments of this type is that if something is truly against God’s plan then He doesn’t allow it to happen. If it’s possible, and He didn’t explicitly prohibit it, then it can’t be against His plan, and must in fact be part of that plan, along the lines of “I sent you a bus, a rowboat, and a helicopter; what more did you expect?”
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H.L. Mencken
Not a hoax, any more than gain a function research leading to pandemic viruses.
We’ve already had some of these AI tools break out of their sandbox hacking. If one were to break out accidentally and say, hack the power grid, we would be screwed.
That said, I don’t think a law would prevent accidents or negligence, any more than a law prevents a burglar breaking into my house. What usaid tools might do accidentally, China is trying to do intentionally.
Gain of function research can absolutely lead to pandemic viruses. The amount of manipulation available these days us frightening, You can build viruses from scratch taking the worst parts of multiple viruses and select those that are the mostly deadly. That is why there is or at least used to be strict guidelines against certain manipulations and which cells are used for hosting to prevent escape. It seems that is no longer the case and one of the worst abusers is China, Those guys seem to have a death wish and they aren’t the only ones,
It’s already too late. Draw down those 401 k’s and party down.
This is just big players begging the government to regulate them so that it becomes too expensive for small competitors to compete, all with China throwing its propaganda wight behind the effort. There is currently not a damn thing preventing AI executives from ensuring that their products are safe with any regulations.
Bingo! Thin the field by regulating out the small guys…the big guys will continue development outside the country and, when the small players have been starved out , get the government to open the market “because of global competition.”
This is a variation of the old Microsoft Vaporware tactic. If a small player came up with new app et al Microsoft would make it difficult to use with Windows while announcing that their in-house equivalent would be available in “about 90 days”. Customers would wait for the fully compatible Microsoft version while the little guy starved. When he finally went broke Microsoft would buy him out for dirt, and then slap their logo on his product, and remove the barriers in Windows that had affected performance.
Trump is trying to keep from drowning in the political waters of high diesel prices and data center opposition. He knows Democrats can capitalize big time on these issues in November and beyond to 2028. The real fear-mongering has yet to begin.
I think the leaders in AI are more qualified as experts in their field than self-proclaimed climate change experts. Given the consistent messages of caution they have been expressing and open admission that not even they understand everything AI does, I think there is justification for an appropriate level of leadership in Washington to ensure safety. That does not seem to be the message, though. It sounds more like just dismissing an issue so as not to have to learn about it and deal with it in a mature way.
Aaaand he’s right. Obama is behind the curtain on this one because midterms.
I could talk all day about the overblown BS, how when you question almost everybody engaging in this fearmongering they have no actual idea how these so-called AI actually WORK, how this is laughably obviously astroturfed from China in an attempt to cripple their competition, or how the organization Anthropic is trying to demand regulate everything is actually funded BY Anthropic.
Instead, I’ll say my core view is very, very simple:
Absolutely EVERYBODY that I don’t trust is suddenly demanding the power to regulate AI.
Bingo.
“Consider the source.”
It’s “Net Neutrality” all over again.
It is easy to rein in an out of control AI model……….
Stop paying your internet provider bill.
I believe Trump us half right. Climate change is a hoax because of who pushed it and because the scientists involved are sucky science who try to squash any contrary comments or research. That’s a tell.
The jury is still out in my opinion on AI, I’ve played with a few in various ways and some of what they can do is pretty impressive. Try having one build from scratch an image and then modify it, Pretty impressive.
However I’ve broken a number of the for free ones and I haven’t tried the premium ones so its hard for me to understand how good they are,
I see no reason why some general guidelines can’t be put forward. They don’t have to stop research. I would look to the AI corporations themselves to suggest them. There is nothing wrong with this approach and it is done all the time.
As an aside I liked Asimovs three laws of robotics which later got expanded.
“Try having one build from scratch an image and then modify it, Pretty impressive.”
That has not been my experience.
Doing it with Grok was like telling Curly how to fix a plumbing leak.
Doing it with Perplexity was like working with Leo from That 70s Show.
Sorry, OneDrive puked up an entirely nonfunctional link in that last message (and there’s no ¡ꓠꓳꓕꓕꓵꓭ ꓕꓲꓷꓱ).
The actual link is here.
Ive had more luck. Maybe it depends upon what you were trying to create.
How can we help AI take over the chinese commie party? Might as well take it to them and shove up their arse without any lube if we can.
It would be great for AI to demolish it.
It would be less great for AI to acquire it, like a skinsuit.
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