Miles Brundage endorses Trump AI leadership strategy

Miles Brundage, former OpenAI policy lead and executive director of AVERI, reposted Senator Banks' statement backing President Trump's AI plan to maintain US leadership over China while adding concrete safety guardrails. David Kasten later quote-tweeted the thread to support unilateral US national-security policies that would proceed regardless of Chinese compliance, using domestic fire-safety rules as an analogy for independent standards.

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Senator Jim Banks@SENATORBANKS

President Trump is right to push for an AI strategy that keeps America ahead of China while putting real guardrails in place against serious risks. As President Trump meets with Xi, AI talks with China should focus on common sense steps that make America safer, even if we have to take those steps on our own. My letter to the admin laying this out ⬇️

10:11 AM · May 14, 2026 View on X