Trump rejects slowing AI advancement citing US-China competition

​President Donald Trump has turned down calls to dilatory the accelerated improvement of artificial intelligence, pointing to the United States’ contention with China.

Speaking successful Ireland on Sunday before departing, Trump said adjacent though determination are “negative forces” raising AI risks, his main interest is keeping America up of China.

“We’re starring China successful AI,” helium told reporters. “We’re the astir blase state successful the world, and I privation to support it that mode due to the fact that whoever wins AI wins.”

Trump’s remark was successful effect to the increasing clamour and warnings by tech experts and salient leaders, including Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Elon Musk (Tesla & SpaceX).

In an article, Amodei expressed interest astir AI advancing drastically and projected a three-step program to “pace the frontier” — gathering AI astatine a balanced complaint that guarantees information portion achieving its benefits.

The program comprises ‘Embedded Evaluators’, wherever AI firms springiness entree to third-party evaluators (like METR) to guarantee adherence to information practices, study incidents, and measure the alignment of completed AI models, ...