In remarks at the United Nations, the president insisted the US is leading the world in AI innovation. President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday at the UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) | AP President Donald Trump condemned the idea of a global entity to oversee artificial intelligence in his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. He said the United States “rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control” AI, just a day ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival at the White House for meetings, in which AI could be a major topic of discussion.
The president insisted in his remarks that the U.S. is leading the world in AI innovation and reiterated his argument that the technology’s disruptive or possibly dangerous capabilities are a “hoax.” It comes as Trump has warned that efforts to regulate AI could hamper American efforts and allow China to get ahead. We’re going to keep it very, very straight and very strong. I’m not going to stifle growth of anything that’s going to be bigger than the industrial revolution,” Trump said.
So it’s super intelligence. In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence dash SI.” On Monday, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, 22 nations adopted a declaration that artificial intelligence “must remain under human direction, oversight and control” and suggested creating a global supervisory regime. Finnish President Alexander Stubb, one of the organizers of the document, told POLITICO that he thinks “it will be in the interest of both China and the United States to have some kind of guardrails.” Your guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the federal government.
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