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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called on the US government to regulate AI companies in an essay published Saturday that was also backed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. But the White House seems unlikely to oblige.

But David Sacks, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, wrote on X, “Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel … Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic.”

Amodei had requested the government enable competing AI companies to work together on standards without breaching antitrust law, either by participating in discussions or issuing a waiver for the companies involved. He also called for government assistance in establishing international coordination.

Concerns about the US ceding its lead in the technology to China have caused the US government to mostly push back against the notion of slowing the pace of its development. “We’re leading China on AI,” Trump has said, “and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins."