US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, at the 81st United Nations General Assembly that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will watch artificial intelligence (AI) closely and could rein the sector in if needed, according to Reuters.

“We’re going to watch it closely through the Department of Justice,” he said. According to CNBC, Trump said the government will rein things in if necessary, that he is “not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution,” and that the United States leads the AI race “over China by a lot.” He also said US government documents will henceforth use the term “super intelligence” instead of artificial intelligence, according to Reuters. The speech came after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, saying that “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”; Trump has dismissed such warnings as a “hoax,” according to Reuters.