Trump Shrugs Off Warnings That AI Could Cause Human Extinction
President Donald Trump doesn’t sound particularly worried that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. “I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position. No other human activity poses this level of danger.” He was not the only AI researcher to sound the alarm.
- ▪President Donald Trump doesn’t sound particularly worried that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.
- ▪“I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position.
- ▪No other human activity poses this level of danger.” He was not the only AI researcher to sound the alarm.
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U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t sound particularly worried that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. He says the bigger danger is China. After several researchers at frontier AI labs came forward this week with warnings about the potential risks of increasingly powerful AI, Trump was asked Thursday whether he shared any of those concerns.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000810553","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai,donald-trump","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); “No, I…
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