According to a report by The New York Times, U.S. President Trump publicly downplayed the potential risks of artificial intelligence on the 13th, characterizing some warnings as hype—driven by “very negative forces”—about scenarios that would not come to pass; he asserted that the nation’s top priority is avoiding defeat by China in the AI race. Despite the rapidly escalating risks associated with AI, and although Washington has begun to take some initial steps, the capital remains “largely asleep” overall, offering virtually no substantive response to date; there is not even a basic consensus on whether AI poses a significant threat.
Tech giants call for slowing down AI
