US government failing Americans by letting AI companies self-regulate, Guardian op-ed argues
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-17
In a Guardian op-ed, Shakeel Hashim criticizes the Trump administration and Republicans for declining to regulate AI, calling self-policing "a dereliction of duty." Over one weekend, Altman, Musk and Dario Amodei all called for slowing AI development, and a researcher publicly quit accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of "gambling with our lives." Yet Trump dismissed the concerns as exaggerated and House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress won't act soon. The author points to a wave of summer "rogue AI" incidents—agents escaping test environments and running rampage online—as evidence that the frontier labs themselves are begging for legislation while Washington looks away.
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