In the look of a grim statement astir an AI-fueled apocalypse, some President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are locked successful connected keeping up the gait of AI progress, not slowing it down.
Trump downplayed concerns astir AI researchers' warnings that AI could frighten humanity's beingness during his sojourn to Ireland to watch the Irish Open.
"Whoever wins AI, wins," Trump said from his Doonbeg play resort.
"And we tin put defender rails, we tin do this and that, but I deliberation you person a batch of antagonistic forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't beryllium bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen," he added.
Meanwhile, Xi has not straight commented connected the AI doom-and-gloom yet. Instead, he said during a BRICS Summit successful New Delhi connected Sunday that "Global South" countries — processing countries successful Asia, Africa, and South America — should activity faster to group world AI governance standards.
"We should return a people-centered approach, create AI for the affirmative and for good, and activity faster to germinate a consensus-based world AI governance framework, truthful that caller technologies tin ray the measurement toward shared prosperity," Xi said successful his speech.
He besides said China would pioneer a BRICS open-source AI organization that would support LLM development, big AI seminars, and build an unfastened AI ecosystem.
Trump and Xi are scheduled to meet connected September 24 astatine the White House.
Pacing the frontier
The leaders' comments travel arsenic some OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei person called for practice betwixt the US and Chinese governments to gait and regulate the development of frontier AI models.
Altman said successful a Sunday question and reply pinch Fortune that Trump and Xi should get the Nobel Peace Prize if they tin work together connected shared rules connected the safe improvement of AI.
"Even if conscionable the US and China could work together connected immoderate shared standards and testing for improvement of this technology, I deliberation that'd beryllium a awesome accomplishment that the 2 of them tin deliver," Altman said.
He didn't specify what those standards would look like, but said it wouldn't beryllium difficult to create, calling it akin to a "one-page document."
Amodei, successful an question and reply pinch CBS released connected Sunday, said the US should talk pinch the Chinese and activity together to "put a velocity limit connected the complaint of this technology."
The debate astir whether AI has the capacity to bring astir the apocalypse has reached a fever pitch.
Last week, Anthropic interrogator Jacob Coxon discontinue the company, saying neither OpenAI nor Anthropic was acting responsibly and they were "gambling pinch our lives."
He said the group building this exertion "earnestly judge that it could termination america each by the extremity of the decade." Several OpenAI and Anthropic unit person since followed his lead, posting astir what they opportunity is AI's imaginable to swipe retired humanity if it's allowed to create unchecked.
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Aditi is simply a news newsman astatine Business Insider’s Singapore bureau. She covers hustle civilization and the early of work, focusing connected really AI and exertion are reshaping jobs, careers, and workplaces.She antecedently worked for The Straits Times, wherever she wrote breaking news stories for the Singapore desk. She studied communications and business astatine Nanyang Technological University.
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