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“We are ahead of China in the field of AI. We are the most technologically advanced country in the world, and, quite frankly, I want it to stay that way,” Trump said, emphasising that the country that wins the AI race will ultimately gain the upper hand.
At the same time, the president left open the possibility of introducing additional restrictions on AI companies if necessary, according to Reuters. However, Trump considers the current warnings about the dangers of the technology to be exaggerated and has described its critics as “very negative forces”.
Developers call for a slowdown
Trump’s remarks came immediately after a call from one of the industry’s biggest players to reconsider the pace of AI development. On 12 September, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, published an essay in which he proposed slowing down the development of the most powerful models.
In his view, the capabilities of modern systems are growing faster than companies and governments can keep up with creating control mechanisms. Of particular concern is the ability of new models to perform increasingly complex tasks and potentially engage in self-improvement. As one example, Amodei cited the recent hack of the Hugging Face platform.
The initiative was supported by OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Altman told Reuters that financial incentives should not push AI safety into the background.
China has no intention of slowing down
Beijing has also rejected the idea of slowing down the sector. The state-run Global Times described Amodei’s initiative as a ‘Cold War scenario’ directed against China, and accused supporters of restrictions of attempting to hinder the development of Chinese AI.
Amodei himself considers competition with China to be one of the main obstacles to slowing down the race. At the same time, he advocates further restrictions on the supply of the most advanced AI chips to China.
As a result, the debate on AI security is increasingly becoming part of the global technology race: developers are talking about the need to slow down, whilst Washington and Beijing view the pace of technological development as a matter of strategic leadership.
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