ByPHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER
Published:11:13 EDT, 8 May 2026|Updated:15:10 EDT, 8 May 2026
The technology he'd spent months championing was now threatening to tear through America's banks, hospitals and water plants.
On an April phone call with the country's most powerful tech executives, the Vice President sounded the alarm on the runaway dangers of their own creations.
On the line were some of the richest men on the planet:Elon Musk, OpenAI'sSam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei,Googlechief Sundar Pichai andMicrosoft's Satya Nadella.
'We all need to work together on this,' Vance reportedly told them.
The Vice President, whose Silicon Valley ties made him theWhite Housepointman onAI, now had a stark warning for his allies: bring your technology under control.
It marks a stunning about-face.
For months, Donald Trump and his top officials insisted AI restrictions had to be torn down so the US could beat China in the Manhattan Project-style race for technological dominance.
On the April phone call, the Vice President warned that powerful new artificial intelligence models such as Anthropic's Mythos could wreak chaos on vulnerable small-town hospitals and banks, exposing them to cyberattacks that local governments would be ill-equipped to repel
Source: Drudge Report
