Protesters demonstrate outside of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 conference, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Following multiple incidents over the past several months where AI agents operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta intruded on third party systems, industry leaders including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for moderating the pace of AI development. But the Trump administration has rejected calls for a slowdown.“We’re leading China in AI, we’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins,” President Donald Trump told reporters last month. “And we can put guardrails, we can do this and that. But I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up.”In five national polls in 2026, the share of American adults saying AI is moving too fast or should slow down ranged from 55% to 77%. Each poll worded the question differently, as shown below. In the polls that broke out results by party, Democrats were more concerned about AI than Republicans. But in three of the four polls that asked by party, a majority of Republicans also said AI was moving too fast.The Washington Post reported that Democrats have “seized on” the Trump administration’s resistance to AI regulation “as a line of attack” in the US midterm elections.

Share saying AI is moving too fast, or that companies should slow down or stop, by party, where the pollster published it.…

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