Trump Dismisses AI Extinction Warnings, Says US Leads China — SkimNews
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- Trump rejected warnings from artificial intelligence researchers about the technology posing a human extinction risk.
- Trump claimed the US leads China by roughly one year in AI and said the country would be "in a very bad position" if it does not win the AI race.
Why it matters: Trump's framing recasts AI policy as a zero-sum geopolitical contest with China rather than engaging with the extinction scenarios researchers raised, and his specific one-year US lead claim creates a measurable yardstick future US-China AI milestones will be judged against.
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