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Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
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Donald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world’s most powerful AI companies.
Key facts
- Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute and a former senior adviser on AI for the Federal Trade Commission, said: “You never waste a crisis is an old and well-worn adage in policy land
- Congressman Greg Casar, a Democrat who will speak with Sanders at the Future of Life Institute’s “Pro-Human Assembly” on Tuesday, dismissed the notion that big tech companies should be responsible
- So Congress should be cracking down on these big tech companies and on these AI CEOs, not like what Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump go
- Congressman Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, was sceptical about the possibility of passing an AI regulation bill
Summary
Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders sounded the alarm over the rapid advancement of the technology and its potential threat to humanity. Trump dismissed the anxieties on Monday, describing them as a “HOAX” and “conspiracy” and insisting on social media: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” But the 80-year-old president, who has sidelined Congress on numerous issues during his second term, looks increasingly isolated as members of both major parties acknowledged the risks and expressed a desire to act before it was too late. Don Beyer, a Democratic congressman from Virginia, said: “History will look poorly on that tweet.