AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Obama joins AI slowdown chorus one day after Trump dismissed safety fears as a hoax
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on artificial intelligence dangers just one day after President Trump declared the only "guardrail" the technology needs is a strong president, drawing a sharp line between two very different visions of who should control the most powerful technology in a generation. Obama's public statement came after Anthropic CEO Dario […] The post Obama joins AI slowdown chorus one day after Trump dismissed safety fears as a hoax appeared first on American Almanac .
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on artificial intelligence dangers just one day after President Trump declared the only "guardrail" the technology needs is a strong president, drawing a sharp line between two very different visions of who should control the most powerful technology in a generation. Obama's public statement came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay warning that AI has been "advancing dramatically faster" since the summer and proposing a three-step plan to bring independent evaluators into AI companies and push governments to set safety standards. USA Today reported that both OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed Amodei's message on X, with Musk writing simply, "Dario is right." Trump, posting…Open