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- Trump branded AI safety fears a "hoax," comparing concerns to the "Global Warming Scam" and the "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX," while declaring in a separate post that "WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!"
- Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, told the BBC a third-party "kill switch" for dangerous AI may need to be made mandatory, noting that most labs "have different ways of being able to pull the plug."
- Industry warnings triggered a selloff in shares of some tech firms Monday as investors weighed the impact of a potential AI development slowdown.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for AI's pace to slow and be more closely monitored "without sacrificing commercial advantage," with Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI publicly backing industry-wide deceleration and independent monitoring.
- Microsoft AI published an outline document on "humanist AI" Monday, with CEO Mustafa Suleyman telling CNBC the guidance had been in development for months and was released in response to the current debate.
- Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Senator Bernie Sanders will both speak at Tuesday's "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington; Sanders told BBC's Newsnight "we have got to do something immediately to stop the uncontrolled growth of AI."
- Chinese state media countered that "Washington's growing anxiety over China's rapid AI development appears to be increasingly distorting its policy priorities," citing Fudan University professor Xin Qiang in the Global Times.
Why it matters: Trump stands alone against a rare industry-wide and bipartisan consensus on AI safeguards: Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI CEOs all back deceleration and independent monitoring, while Sanders and Bannon will share a stage Tuesday. Investors already punished tech shares Monday on the regulatory uncertainty those competing signals create.
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