Donald Trump doesn't want to slow down artificial intelligence. "We can introduce safeguards, we can do this and that, but I think there are a lot of negative forces raising the issue, bringing up things that won't happen," the tycoon said, dismissing Anthropic's Dario Amodei's latest warning about AI: it's developing at an "exponential" rate and, without a slowdown, within six to twelve months, it could be capable of leading a swarm of agents capable of taking control of the entire internet.
A Matrix-like scenario to which the American president, from his Irish golf club in Doonbeg, replied that the US is "ahead of China in AI. We are the most advanced country in the world. And frankly, I want it to stay that way, because whoever wins the AI challenge wins all," Trump added, claiming the paternity of the expression: "I coined it and it's true, winner takes all." Therefore, the race for technological supremacy, starting with AI, allows no pause in the fierce competition with the Dragon.
Yet, just Saturday, Amodei launched a call on his blog to globally "slow down" the pace of development of the most advanced AI models for safety reasons: "Progress will still seem rapid, and we will have to use the time we gain wisely," he wrote.
The proposal immediately received support from two undisputed key players in the sector in America: Elon Musk (SpaceX, which controls xAI) and San Altman of OpenAI. The latter announced the postponement of his company's mega-IPO on Wall Street until 2027: "We'll focus on security. It wouldn't be the right time to go public: I'd say it won't happen in 2026," he explained, brushing aside speculation about a possible market launch as early as this year, just weeks after the confidential filing of the IPO documentation.
The recent departure of several researchers from Anthropic and Google, who just last week warned that advanced AI systems "could kill us all by the end of the decade," has accelerated the need to reflect on the issue. A few days ago, Anthropic highlighted, in a lengthy report, the risks of misuse of its models, including by Iran, which is engaged in a war against the United States. These attempts have been blocked, at least for now, and Amodei believes that increased security is needed.
(Unioneonline)
