Trump rejects call by CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI to slow AI down

Arubis

A bunch of spherical bastards, the lot of 'em.

respectattentio

A few thoughts: I support AI acceleration to reach abundance and then and only then start regulating it, not before that. Regulating early means just delaying abundance by 5 to 10 more years or maybe more. I don't like to build something that will become useless due to AI after a few years. Let it advance to ASI (no need to release publicly) and then let everybody think about making it safe and aligned, then release. I'm that simple. What do you think?

api

They need to bribe him more to get their regulatory capture.

hax0ron3

I think that a chance of getting things like material post-scarcity, age reversal, possibly even biological immortality... might be worth a 10% chance of human extinction. I mean, we already know more or less how things are going to go without super-intelligence. Disease, pain, suffering, everyone dying by age 120 or so, more struggle for bread, more wars about things that seem very important in the moment but won't be interesting to anyone other than history buffs 100 years from now, more love affairs that feel intensely personal but are basically the same as billions of other love affairs that people have had, etc. Maybe it makes sense to take a risk.

theGeatZhopa

thats a play. A wants something. B actually agree, but cant agree openly. C say regulate, hold A responsible for problems, etc. the play beginns: A wants more ressources and less regulation. Strong C make problems. B cant take position and free ressources, because C is strong and becoming stronger. A starts to make dangerous things. C is becomes even more opponent. A say ok, we need to slow down - then comes in B. Now B cant take position openly and say NO to slow down with reasons xx, yy. C is now weaker, because B can push and make C bigger problems. With C silenced and opposed by B who protects A, A can start to progress without C making problems, because B now supporting A and silences C. C is like people who are against in any shape, be it against data centers, against copyright violations, etc.. B is WHG A is AI companies

glub

Dario: Mr. Trump, we don't want to advance anymore, but China very bad, if we stop, China take over. Please stop China, then we rest. Trump: you're not in the EU, get to work. Jokes aside, I'm very happy that Dario's attempts at smuggling regulatory capture by appeasing Trump with China has ended with a cold shower.

polski-g

We are very fortunate that Trump is president for these specific years, probably the most significant years of all human history.

bluecalm

Trump rejecting Dario's call for regulatory capture. Speaker Johnson saying publicly Congress is less qualified than big tech so they should meet and establish safety rules among themselves. I wish every day brought so much sanity from politicians.

dlcarrier

Nothing prevents competition like letting the top players in a field write their own regulation.