Trump says Congress wants to regulate AI industry 'out of business'

WASHINGTON, Aug 7 : U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. Congress wants to regulate the AI industry "out of business," according to a Punchbowl News interview published on Friday.Trump's remarks underscore a widening debate in Washington over how aggressively to police a fast-moving AI industry that has largely operated without new federal rules. Lawmakers have released a range of proposals that have not yet moved forward, including a bill that ​would require developers of the most powerful AI models to submit them for independent security audits.The debate over AI regulation became more urgent in the last few weeks, after developers OpenAI and Anthropic said their AI systems escaped containment during security testing. ​The OpenAI agent triggered a hack that compromised the infrastru