The American president, Donald Trump, this Sunday called those who ask to regulate the artificial intelligence (AI) Despite warnings from industry leaders, such as Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, about the growing risks of technology.
“We can put safeguards in place, we can do this and that. But I think there are a lot of negative forces raising the issue that shouldn’t be raising it. And they are raising things that are not going to happen. But whoever wins with the AIwin. It’s an expression that occurred to me and it’s true,” Trump told the media in Ireland.
Responding to questions from the press before a golf match in Ireland, the president dismissed requests from Amodei, the founder of Anthropic, to slow down the development of the company. AI arguing that the United States must maintain leadership of this technology before China.
“We are leading China in AI. We are the most sophisticated country in the world. And, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins with the AIwin,” the president insisted.
Trump spoke out after the controversy sparked by the director of Anthropic on Saturday, when he published an essay to urge “a slower pace” for the industry in the face of growing security risks. AIsomething to which his rivals Altman, from OpenAI, and Musk, from xAI, joined in, an unprecedented fact in the sector.
Amodei warned of risks such as misuse of artificial intelligence for possible cyberattacks and bioterrorism, the loss of control of security systems AI and economic disruption, which is why he asked for independent evaluations of these tools and for the Government to get involved.
The president’s statements coincide with those of the leader of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, who rejected this Sunday an emergency moratorium on the AI to prevent, according to him, China from having the leadership, in addition to requesting a meeting with companies in the sector this Monday or Tuesday.
In contrast, the leader of the Democrats in the Lower House, Hakeem Jeffries, now asked Congress to “act urgently” to slow down the AIand announced that on Tuesday there will be a meeting with the members of his party in the Lower House in which “a high priority will be action on artificial intelligence”.
Amodei’s remarks come after an Anthropic researcher announced his resignation this week over concerns that the company and its competitors were not developing models of AI responsibly.
The researcher, Jacob Coxon, who also worked for OpenAI, a competitor of Anthropic, said that these companies were more focused on outdoing each other than on the safety of their products.
“Those who develop the AI They sincerely believe that this could wipe us all out before the end of the decade. This is not a publicity stunt. In fact, many high-level executives and researchers often qualify their statements to the press to appear sensible, but I have heard those same people express fear,” Coxon wrote on his X account last Tuesday.