In a week marked by competing visions of risk and responsibility, President Trump pushed back against warnings from leading AI executives who cautioned that the technology they are building could pose existential dangers to humanity — dismissing their concerns as overstated. In the same breath, he attributed elevated American energy costs to the war in Ukraine, redirecting accountability away from domestic policy. Together, these moments reveal an administration that is skeptical of precautionary thinking and inclined to locate the sources of disruption beyond its own borders or decisions.