Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight
In remarks at the United Nations, the president insisted the U.S. is leading the world in AI innovation.
During the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump dismissed the notion of a global entity to regulate artificial intelligence. In his remarks, he stated that the United States "rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" AI. This came just a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival at the White House, where AI could be a significant topic of discussion.
Trump emphasized that the U.S. is currently leading the world in AI innovation and argued that the technology's disruptive or potentially dangerous capabilities are a "hoax." He warned that efforts to regulate AI could hinder American efforts and enable China to surpass the United States. "We’re leading now over China by a lot and everyone else and we’re going to keep it that way.
We’re going to keep it very, very straight and very strong. I’m not going to stifle growth of anything that’s going to be bigger than the industrial revolution," Trump stated. The president proposed renaming the field to "super intelligence," urging other nations to stop using the term "artificial." He insisted, "It is not fake, it’s actually amazing."
On Monday, 22 nations adopted a declaration stating that AI "must remain under human direction, oversight and control" and proposed establishing a global supervisory regime. Finnish President Alexander Stubb, one of the document's organizers, suggested that both China and the United States might benefit from implementing some guardrails.
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