Other than “braking”. Despite the warning issued by the CEO of Anthropic about the speed of development of artificial intelligence models, Donald Trump does not want to hear about “slowing down”. After the fears expressed by Amodei, also shared by Elon Musk and Sam Altman of OpenAI, the president of the United States returned to the topic when speaking with journalists at the Irish Open, one of the events planned during his visit to Ireland: “Whoever wins the race for artificial intelligence, will win everything”.
“No slowdown on artificial intelligence”
Trump explained that he does not want a slowdown in the artificial intelligence sector, where the United States is competing with China: “We are at the forefront of artificial intelligence compared to China, we are the most advanced country in the world. And frankly, I want it to stay that way, because whoever wins in the field of AI, wins over everyone. We can introduce safeguards, we can do this and that, but I think there are many negative forces raising the issue, bringing up things that won’t happen.”
“We have an excellent relationship. We will get along. China has been, I think, very fair to us in recent years,” he added in response to another question about whether Beijing would provide Iran with satellite images of the American base in Jordan hit last July 17 in a raid in which three US soldiers were killed.
The Ukraine-Russia war and the conflict in Iran
The US president then also spoke about the conflicts in Iran and the war between Ukraine and Russia: “Zelensky must do one thing. He must stop attacking fuel refineries in Russia. He is causing a shortage of diesel. This is not the fault of the Middle East. It is the fault of what is happening between Russia and Ukraine.” Then the comment on the Iranian front: “Tehran ardently desires to reach an agreement and the war could end before or shortly after the Midterm elections. I am not interested in the fact that the countries bordering the Persian Gulf dialogue with Iran, it depends on them”.
The challenge to China
The President of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, also spoke on the “challenge” on artificial intelligence, interviewed by NBC: “We must put security barriers to avoid losing control of general artificial intelligence, but at the same time we must be sure that we do not lose control in the global competition with China because it would be a threat to national security.”
“We have to find an appropriate balance – he added -. I’ve talked to all the AI providers: Ammiday, Altman, Musk and all the others. They say it needs control but everyone has a different idea of what it should be. We need to manage this new technology, as we have done with others in the past, making sure we act responsibly without stifling American innovation.”