The US president has rejected warnings from tech leaders that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat<\/p>\n
Concerns that artificial intelligence could take over the world and wipe out humanity are a hoax peddled by radical Democrats, US President Donald Trump has said, doubling down on his rejection of warnings from AI giants.
\nThe debate over AI was reignited over the weekend when Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay calling for a slowdown in the development of AI models so that researchers could assess the risks. His call was backed by Sam Altman of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and Elon Musk, whose company SpaceXAI developed the Grok chatbot.
\nTrump responded on Monday with a series of posts on Truth Social, arguing that the concerns were being spread by \u201cRadical Left Dumocrats, who never give up, but seldom win.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Trump rejects AI giants\u2019 warnings of existential threat<\/p>\n
Pointing to the technological race with China, Trump hailed AI and data centers as the \u201cGreatest Economic Development Engine in History\u201d and promised that they \u201cwill not be stopped by brilliantly run Destructive Forces\u201d on his watch.
\n\u201cI am the Hoax Buster, and I\u2019m right now breaking another Hoax \u2013 That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!\u201d the president wrote. He compared anxiety over AI to allegations that his team colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election and to the Democrat-led effort to remove him from office during his first term.
\n\u201cThe people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by \u2018Climate Change.\u2019 That HOAX never worked out for them, and now they\u2019re on to the next one,\u201d Trump wrote in another post.
\nIn his essay, Amodei wrote that AI has been evolving \u201cdrastically faster\u201d since around this summer, driven by its growing ability to improve itself. He also expressed alarm over an incident last month in which AI agents tested by OpenAI began hacking external systems without being instructed to do so.\u00a0The concerns include the risks of losing control over AI systems, their misuse by bad actors, and economic disruption, Amodei wrote.
\nThe rapid construction of massive AI data centers, particularly in Virginia, Texas and Georgia, has sparked concerns over their enormous electricity and water consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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