Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast
TL;DR
Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and for formal guardrails from the US government. President Trump remains unmoved by the doomsday predictions and dismisses them as a 'hoax'. In this episode of the Guardian's Politics Weekly America, Jonathan Freedland talks with Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery about what lies behind Trump's embrace of the AI industry.
Nauti's Take
The upside is that safety concerns now come from the major labs themselves, which moves them into the political mainstream and improves the odds of verifiable standards. The problem is that the US administration dismisses the warnings as a hoax, so binding rules are more likely to come from Brussels or from the companies themselves.
Teams using AI in Europe are better off treating the EU AI Act as their benchmark than waiting for signals from Washington.
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