Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight

· Politico ·

2 min read Original article ↗

“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 said. “We will be very careful, and that’s why we have a Department of Justice.”

The president also said the name should be changed to “super intelligence,” calling on other nations to drop the use of “artificial.”

“It is not fake, it’s actually amazing,” the president said. “From this point forward, all United States documents and hopefully the world’s will be changed to use the much more accurate term, super, as opposed to artificial. So it’s super intelligence. In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence dash SI.”

On Monday, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, 22 nations adopted a declaration that artificial intelligence “must remain under human direction, oversight and control” and suggested creating a global supervisory regime. Finnish President Alexander Stubb, one of the organizers of the document, told POLITICO that he thinks “it will be in the interest of both China and the United States to have some kind of guardrails.”