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🔮 That same day, an event dubbed “America’s Golden Age” will feature the president, more tech and AI executives and Trump Cabinet members as they unveil a new government website.
🔮 Without official support from the US, however, any such agreement will be difficult to execute.
🔮 He warned that AI-enabled attacks could potentially target hospitals, electric grids, and other infrastructure.
🔮 There’s little reason to believe the new adviser will change the narrative.
🔮 OpenAI’s Sam Altman will attend the Sept. 24 state dinner that President Donald Trump is hosting for Xi, Semafor has confirmed, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Apple’s Tim Cook are reportedly attending, too.
There are also discussions about an adjacent White House meeting with AI CEOs next week, which House Majority Leader Mike Johnson referenced, but a representative for the speaker declined to provide further details.
🔮 Using the term as an insult may not prove an effective long-term message for the government, especially since Trump is increasingly alone in his stance that AI companies can figure out how to regulate themselves.
“It would be a mistake to pigeonhole the emerging pro-human movement,” said Michael Kleinman, head of US policy for the Future of Life Institute (which, he said, is not an effective altruist organization).
🔮 Specifically, the package would have included a proposal from Sens. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., granting AI companies a limited antitrust exemption for sharing intelligence with one another and coordinating defenses against Chinese spying and distilling of AI models, and addressing other risks to advanced systems such as cybersecurity incidents.
🔮 The letter’s authors, including conservative-leaning groups like Americans for Prosperity and the R Street Institute along with pro-consumer groups like Free Press and Public Citizen, write that “a lack of accountability over the governance of a technology that is becoming more critical to our nation would be inconsistent with democratic values and likely lead to a loss of public trust.”
🔮 Congress isn’t back to Washington yet, but some lawmakers were jolted awake by a round of dire AI warnings from a resigning Anthropic researcher who said “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
🔮 Across the Capitol, OpenAI remains most supportive of bipartisan Senate Commerce Committee talks that could advance this week, despite skepticism from Anthropic, Democrats, and AI safety groups, who say those negotiations risk letting the industry self-police.
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