The American administration threatened prison time for the head of one of the largest artificial intelligence companies due to risky actions with the technology.
US President Donald Trump spoke about this in an interview with the "60 Minutes" program. According to Trump, the White House team encountered a situation where an unnamed top manager was doing "something bad with artificial intelligence."
"We called them very decisively and said: 'Prepare for prison. Please kiss your wife goodnight. Do you like the color orange? [prisoners in the US wear orange uniforms]. Go home immediately. See your wife and children. Kiss them goodnight, because tomorrow morning you will go to prison,'" Trump shared the details of the conversation.
He refused to name the manager or the specific company, but clarified that it was about "one of the largest" technology firms in the industry. Trump added that after this warning, the unnamed CEO "completely changed his approach," and although the manager's actions could have been malicious, Trump does not consider them to be so 100%.
In the winter of 2026, the Trump administration added the company Anthropic to a national security blacklist. At that time, the Pentagon demanded that the company provide the military with unrestricted access to the advanced artificial intelligence model Claude without any limitations.
Anthropic publicly responded that it "cannot in good conscience agree" to the demands, even under the threat of contract termination. The company stated that it would not retreat from its principles — not to use AI for surveillance of US citizens and for integration into fully autonomous weapons systems.
In the fall, at an event at the White House attended by Sundar Pichai (Google), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Elon Musk (xAI), and Jensen Huang (Nvidia), a voluntary AI safety agreement was signed, which Trump called "morally binding."