Trump Dismisses A.I. Risks as Hoax While White House Grapples With Safety Concerns

At a moment when artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations of economic power and national security, President Trump has chosen the language of dismissal — calling safety concerns a hoax and casting the technology purely as an engine of American dominance. Yet within the same White House, officials are quietly wrestling with the harder questions his public certainty refuses to hold. History suggests that the distance between a leader's declared position and his administration's private deliberation is rarely stable for long.