As this week got underway, Donald Trump responded to growing concerns about the threats posed by artificial intelligence by staking a position that even many in the industry see as indefensibly extreme: He rejected the idea of AI guardrails altogether, telling the public that the only necessary safeguard is having an American president with a “high IQ.”

The White House policy, in other words, is to simply do nothing except hope for the best.

In the hours that followed, Trump published a half-dozen related items to his social media platform, calling AI fears a “hoax,” including his Monday afternoon online rant:

AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX, no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA — UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1 — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2 — and all of the other HOAXES and SCAMS that America was forced to endure through the Destructionists’ and Deviants’ foul play and illegal conduct.

He went on to argue in subsequent items to compare AI concerns to the climate crisis, which he also dismissed as a “hoax,” adding, “The AI Hoax being perpetrated by the Radical Left Dumocrats is reminiscent of their Global Warming Scam of not so long ago, where everyone was going to die from extreme heat. What happened?”

The answer, incidentally, is that the climate crisis has intensified, putting the world at great risk, as a sitting American president really ought to know and understand.

To be sure, Trump’s tiresome rhetoric was familiar. After all, he effectively uses the word “hoax” to mean “stuff I don’t like,” having applied it to everything from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal to his 2020 election defeat, the affordability crisis to the Jan. 6 attack.

But therein lies the problem: The president tried to equate AI fears with a series of controversies that were and are entirely real.

He argued, for example, that AI concerns are “no different from” his Russia scandal, which is a terrible argument, because the Russia scandal is still real, no matter how many times he pretends otherwise. The Ukraine scandal that led to his first impeachment was real, too.

In other words, Trump’s new idea to respond to intensifying fears surrounding AI risks is to reference hoaxes that weren’t hoaxes, which proves the opposite of his intended point.

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