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The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored, and other AI leaders have joined him. But US President Donald Trump is opposing calls to regulate the technology.

The BBC's North America editor Sarah Smith explains the two reasons that are keeping the US president from regulating AI.

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