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Trump Rejected Calls to Slow AI and Took Aim at Dario Amodei
The U.S. president defended moving ahead in the artificial intelligence race and called a supposed conspiracy against the sector “sick.” There was also a response from China.
Donald Trump once again spoke out on the debate over the development of artificial intelligence and said the United States should not slow the advance of that technology. According to Clarín, citing posts on Truth Social, the president said the only safeguard AI needs is a “strong and smart” president and asserted that the country maintains an edge over China.
In that message, Trump also said his administration already has broad criminal and regulatory power over companies in the sector. He also denounced a supposed “sick” conspiracy against artificial intelligence and data centers, and said the only beneficiary of that scenario would be China.
The president also took aim at Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, whom he mentioned after the businessman called for moderating the pace of improvement in advanced AI models. According to Clarín, Amodei published an essay in which he argued not to stop research, but to gain one to two years to prevent critical risks.
According to the same outlet, Sam Altman, of OpenAI, backed the idea of giving independent evaluators access comparable to that of employees, while Elon Musk agreed with Amodei’s position.
The debate also had repercussions in China. Clarín reported that Guo Jiakun, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called for promoting an AI development that is “open, inclusive, universally beneficial and ethical.” At a press conference in Beijing, he added that alarmism, confrontation and ruthless competition only disrupt the global governance of this technology and benefit no one.
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About this note. Written by El Notero with the assistance of artificial intelligence, based on what was published by the cited outlet. El Notero did not conduct its own reporting on this event.
