Trump claims 'sick conspiracy' over calls for more guardrails on AI companies
Donald Trump has claimed there is a “SICK conspiracy” against artificial intelligence and data centers in response to the growing calls for greater checks on AI development.
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“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
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Trump wrote on Truth Social, insisting that the administration has stopped leaders of AI companies from “doing bad, or potentially bad” things.
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However, he didn’t point to any concrete examples for how he has curbed possible abuse or malfeasance in the industry.
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The president said over the weekend that the AI arms race is of the utmost importance for US national security.
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“Whoever wins AI wins,” he told reporters on a visit to Ireland, before repeating it on social media today.
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Trump also chided Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, who we noted earlier has called to slow down AI’s advancement to ensure public safety.
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This comes after company whistleblowers claimed that the technology has the potential to “kill all of humanity” within the decade.
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Trump accused Amodei of “now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’”, and claimed that the administration has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies”.
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The president added:
There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China …
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We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so.
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Trump 'open to' talks with Iran, insists that countries should reimburse US for oil arriving through strait of Hormuz
On Truth Social, Trump also claimed that Iran wants to make a deal “quickly and badly”, and that the while Trump will “determine” whether to engage, the US is “open to” the “concept”.
This comes after scheduled talks between Gulf states and Iran, about the future control of the strait of Hormuz, were postponed today.
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Earlier, Trump insisted that other countries who have benefited from oil that has arrived through the vital passageway, should ultimately reimburse the US.
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“The Countries of the World, which have been no help to us whatsoever, should, and will, reimburse the United States of America when this SCAM Confligration is all over,” the president said.
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“We are doing it much more for others, than we are for ourselves, and we have been for Generations!”
The president has claimed that the “only reason” that there has been such consternation about increased guardrails on artificial intelligence is because the US is “leading” development of new technology.
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“Don’t kill the Golden Goose!” Trump warned on Truth Social.
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However, the recent pushback, including from leading AI company CEOs has been in response to employees who have warned of irresponsible and “reckless” growth in the space, which – they argue – is threatening humanity.
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Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says
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Before the facility was shuttered, detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration jail were frequently locked in outside metal cages no bigger than a phone booth, according to a damning government watchdog report that said the practice “does not align with standards for humane treatment”.
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The findings from the office of the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were published on its website – and offer rare criticism of the Trump administration by one of its own agencies.
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The report also provides the first official confirmation that guards repeatedly used the highly restrictive cages on detainees in direct contravention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rules.
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In December, the Guardian was the first to report an Amnesty International dossier detailing multiple alleged human rights abuses at the controversial camp in the remote Florida Everglades, including how people were regularly shackled outside in metal cages for hours as well as exposed to brutal heat, sunshine and swarms of mosquitoes.
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At the time, a spokesperson for Ron DeSantis, the Republican Florida governor whose administration ran Alligator Alcatraz on behalf of the federal government, dismissed the claims now confirmed by the DHS report as “fabrications” – and the Amnesty report as “a politically motivated attack”.
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The same spokesperson did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on Monday.
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The notorious immigration jail closed in June after a year of operation during which DeSantis boasted of detaining and deporting more than 21,000 immigrants.
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Officials cited the risk of holding detainees in tents during hurricane season for the closure.
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Further to his earlier post dismissing grave calls to increase controls on AI as a “sick conspiracy”, Donald Trump continued to defend the growth of AI and spread of data centers as going to be “the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History — Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet.”
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He wrote on Truth Social:
Concerning AI, when, in the History of Business, did anyone see the Leaders of an Industry call for Regulation that, if strongly implemented, will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy?
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AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX, no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA — UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1 — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2 — and all of the other HOAXES and SCAMS that America was forced to endure through the Destructionists’ and Deviants’ foul play and illegal conduct.
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President Xi, of China, just announced that China will be doing absolutely nothing to stand in the way of AI, or its future.
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Google has recently stated that they want to build a massive Plant in Finland, all because they are finding permitting too difficult in the United States.
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I am not happy about this, and want them to change their thinking.
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It will not be stopped by brilliantly run Destructive Forces during the Term of President DONALD J. TRUMP!
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AI-linked stocks tumbled this morning after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown in AI “reckless” development, citing fears the technology could soon run out of control.
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Trump again touts $5,000 payments if GOP retains control of Congress
Donald Trump is still touting his pledge to give a “Trump dividend” of $5,000 to every adult US citizen if Republicans win November’s midterm elections.
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The pledge has sparked incredulity and accusations of bribery, with a huge question mark still hanging over its legality - not to mention it comes at a time of extreme concern over the national debt, which exceeded $40tn for the first time last month.
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He posted about it again just now on Truth Social:
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The $5,000 Trump Dividend, to be given to all Adults in the United States due to the fact that our Country is taking in Trillions of Dollars of Economic Development, Investment, and Pure SUCCESS, is being criticized by “Dumocrats” who are hoping that it never happens —
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As an example, the Dumocrats said THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL, one of the largest ever approved by Congress, or signed into Law by a President happened, despite the Dumocrats saying it would be impossible to get approved —
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Or the Gift of $1776 that I gave last year to our Military, was an almost guaranteed Non Starter, everyone said it could not be done, but it was, our Military Patriots got the money, and loved it.
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