Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products (Donica Phifer/Axios)

House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that Congress will not spearhead AI-safety regulation, urging companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI to assume responsibility for product safety. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlined a “pace the frontier” strategy involving embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global cooperation, warning that the approach’s toughest dilemma is China’s potential non-participation. President Trump rejected calls for an AI slowdown, dismissing regulatory demands as driven by “negative forces.”