“AI could be very harmful, we’ve to be very cautious with it,” President Donald Trump mentioned to reporters aboard Air Drive One on March 15, 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday (March 15, 2026) accused Iran of utilizing synthetic intelligence as a “disinformation weapon” to misrepresent its wartime successes and help.
“AI could be very harmful, we’ve to be very cautious with it,” Mr. Trump mentioned to reporters on Air Drive One shortly after he made a publish on his Fact Social platform the place he accused Western media retailers, with out proof, of ‘shut coordination’ with Iran to unfold AI-generated ‘faux information’. The feedback come amid renewed tensions between the Federal Communications Fee and broadcasters after Mr. Trump took goal at media protection of the U.S. and Israel’s warfare with Iran. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Saturday (March 14) threatened to drag licenses of broadcasters who didn’t “right course” on their protection.
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Mr. Trump has incessantly accused information media retailers of mendacity after they run tales that he sees as crucial of him, and he has beforehand known as for eradicating the licenses of broadcast retailers he views as unfair.
Between the social media publish and his feedback to journalists, Mr. Trump on Sunday (March 15) cited three cases the place he claimed Iran used AI to mislead the general public.
On Fact Social, he mentioned that Iran had proven “kamikaze boats” that don’t exist. He additional said that Iran used AI to falsely depict a profitable assault on the united statesAbraham Lincoln plane service, including that publications that propagated the information ought to be charged with treason. Reuters has verified pictures filmed from the Iraqi port of Basra, which confirmed explosive-laden Iranian boats showing to assault two gasoline tankers, killing at the very least one crew member. Iranian state media did declare that Iran’s army struck the united statesAbraham Lincoln, although the declare was not extensively picked up by Western retailers.
Mr. Trump additionally claimed that pictures displaying “250,000” Iranians at a rally to help new Supreme Chief Mojtaba Khamenei have been “completely AI generated” and that the occasion “by no means came about.” A number of pro-government demonstrations have occurred in Iran because the warfare started, however a short search by Reuters didn’t discover any Western stories that cite a determine of 250,000. Many media organisations, together with Reuters, have run information photographs displaying crowds in Tehran after Khamenei was named chief.
Mr. Trump didn’t make clear the particular information stories from Iran he was referencing.
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