Donald Trump dismisses mass extinction from super-intelligent killer AI robots
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI models could become too hard to control and lead to human extinction so Trump was waded in
Trump doesn’t think AI will kill us all(Image: AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Donald Trump has dismissed warnings that AI could “kill us all”. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that firms were pushing self-improving AI models which could become too hard to control and lead to human extinction.
But the Orange Manbaby said he doesn’t “have any” apprehensions over the psycho scumbag bots as he departed Dallas after the GOP convention.
He added: “I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position.”
The US president said his priority was to maintain an edge over China, saying: “We are leading China right now by a pretty good period. I would say a year, which is, you know, considered a lot.”
He also referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to Washington later this year. Trump said he expects the meeting to be “great” but made no mention of AI talks.
Some researchers and safety advocates have suggested that the US and China should coordinate to slow the pace of AI development until better safety regulations are established.
Mr Coxon, who worked on pretraining OpenAI and Anthropic, made a series of posts on X earlier this week after quitting the AI industry over safety concerns.
He accused both leading AI companies of not acting responsibly by “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”.
Mr Coxon claimed people building these AI systems “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.
US senator Bernie Sanders, who has repeatedly called for more regulation of AI, tweeted that he will “introduce legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development”.
He added: “The very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity.”
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote on X: “That there is even a possibility that these technologies would elude human control is alarming. Technology should enhance the human experience; it should never supplant it!”
But Democratic senator Chris Murphy said the problem “can easily be solved… through a regulatory system that allows the research to continue, but in a way that doesn’t destroy us”.
