Trump dismisses AI safety concerns as 'hoax,' pledges to encourage development
The president frames AI risk warnings as comparable to climate change predictions and vows not to stifle growth in the technology.
What to know
- Trump equates AI safety warnings with discredited climate change predictions and calls the concerns a hoax.
- He commits to encouraging AI and superintelligence development without stifling growth, citing competition with China.
- The president says law enforcement and the Department of Justice will handle necessary restraints, but growth is his priority.
“The same people that said, 'We'll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming'... are the people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us, that robots are going to attack us, and everything is a DISASTER.”
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Donald Trump U.S. President
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Trump posts AI safety warnings are 'hoax' comparable to climate predictions
Trump posted on Truth Social that people warning of AI dangers are the same ones who predicted mass deaths from global warming that never occurred. He characterized AI risk as another false alarm and stated his commitment to encouraging AI development.
“I will only encourage AI or, SI (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)! We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I'm going to keep it that way!”
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Trump: Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead. These are the same people who say robots are going to attack us. This is the
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