Trump opposes slowing AI development, citing US advantage over China
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US President Donald Trump has apparently rejected calls from leading artificial intelligence experts to slow down AI model development. He believes there are no risks from improving AI, according to The Washington Post.
"We’re leading China in AI, we’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way. Whoever wins AI wins," Trump stated.
He also explained warnings from AI industry leaders as coming from unnamed negative forces.
"I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up. And they’re bringing up things that won’t happen," the US president told journalists.
What preceded this
The Washington Post notes that Trump has largely built his economic policy on accelerating AI development, as the boom in this technology has led to historic highs in the stock market.
However, this passive income faced new criticism after three of the most prominent AI industry leaders - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and xAI founder Elon Musk - supported the idea of slowing down the pace of AI model capability development.
The reason was growing concern about the potential dangers of technological progress that it poses at the highest levels of the AI industry.
This became evident after the resignation of a researcher from Anthropic, who warned on Tuesday that the firm and its competitors are irresponsibly developing artificial intelligence models. The statement, in turn, sparked public discussion about the risks of this technology.
Meanwhile, Trump's reaction once again firmly placed him on the side of those who support rapid AI development. But as stated in The Washington Post, even Republicans and some of their allies in the technology industry are concerned about Trump's lack of concern regarding potential dangers associated with artificial intelligence.
What else is worth knowing
In July, it became known that Trump wants to make Americans co-owners of AI giants. According to him, US citizens could benefit from the rapid growth of artificial intelligence companies through partial government participation in their capital.
Recently, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce stated that Beijing is ready to hold negotiations with the US on artificial intelligence issues.
