Trump downplays need to curb AI development
Trump downplays the importance of curbing AI development
Translated by Qiyas from الجريدة — Original source
U.S. President Donald Trump downplayed on Sunday the need for his administration to curb the development of artificial intelligence, saying he was concerned about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that such superiority would help address risks arising from this advanced technology.
While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specific details about potential rules and brushed off warnings about the technology advancing too rapidly and without oversight, attributing such concerns to unspecified “negative forces,” even though industry leaders had raised these fears.
Trump told reporters during a weekend trip to Ireland: “We can put in protective controls, and we can do this and that, but I think there are a lot of very negative forces raising this issue, when they shouldn’t be, and they’re raising things that won’t happen.” He concluded: “But whoever wins in AI is the winner.”
When asked later on Sunday whether he was downplaying the risks of AI, Trump replied, “I’m not downplaying it,” adding that AI “will be more good than bad, by a lot.” Speaking to journalists during his return flight to Washington, he reiterated his earlier comments about the stakes of “whoever wins in AI.”
The Republican president spoke a day after Dario Amodei, chief executive of the AI company Anthropic, said the sector should slow its rapid pace of development to give safety measures time to catch up. Other tech leaders publicly agreed with Amodei, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI.
