New Trump AI adviser won’t fix industry’s problems
There’s little reason to believe a new adviser will change the narrative on AI safety.
President Donald Trump has appointed an AI adviser to address the industry's recent public relations issues, but there is little expectation that this new appointee will significantly alter the narrative. The Trump administration's primary defense has been the assertion that frontier AI labs are self-regulating, with US government policy focusing on outpacing China.
David Sacks, a former AI czar and current chair of the White House council on science and technology, has been vigorously promoting Trump's anti-regulation stance, even though he is no longer an official government employee. As broader policy discussions shift towards potential actions, Chinese and US officials are engaging in talks regarding AI risk cooperation, OpenAI is advocating for global risk-sharing, and countries are convening at the United Nations General Assembly to strategize AI harm mitigation.
These developments suggest that the industry's problems may not be resolved by the appointment of an AI czar, as alternative approaches are gaining traction in the policy arena.
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