Anthropic CEO Calls for Slowing AI Development; Trump Opposes
Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in AI development due to risks of recursive self-improvement, while Donald Trump dismissed such ideas as harmful to US competitiveness.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has called for slowing down the pace of artificial intelligence development. He stated that his company is ready to take the first step in this direction, as models within leading AI labs are already beginning to achieve recursive self-improvement.
Trump Opposes Slowing Down
The situation escalated during a public interview with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA. During the conversation, Donald Trump called. Huang attempted to enable speakerphone but struggled with the technical aspect initially. Trump joked:
"He can make the most powerful AI chips in the world, but he can't figure out how to put me on speakerphone."
The conversation then turned to calls from Amodei and other tech leaders to slow down AI development. Trump firmly rejected these ideas, stating that robots will not take over the world and that talk of an "AI apocalypse" is a deception. He emphasized that any slowdown in AI development would only give a strategic advantage to China.
Jensen Huang responded to these remarks, noting that the industry will not allow its development to be stopped.
Why it matters
AnalysisThis highlights the growing tension between AI safety advocates and those prioritizing technological leadership and economic competition, particularly in the context of US-China geopolitics.
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