President Donald Trump has dismissed warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence and rejected calls from senior industry figures to slow the pace of development, saying the United States was ahead of China and intended to stay there.
“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open today. “And we can put guardrails. We can do this and that. But I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up.”
His comments followed a blog post published yesterday by Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic PBC, calling on the industry to slow down and arguing that the effort required industry and global coordination. Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk, who runs xAI Corp, endorsed the message shortly afterwards.
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