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“Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping wrapped up their Washington summit on Friday, facing criticism that they had squandered an opportunity to pause their countries’ artificial intelligence (AI) arms race.”

“Trump, by contrast, has argued forcefully against regulating frontier AI, and he wrote on Truth Social before his meeting with Xi that on artificial intelligence, "I want to leave it exactly where it is.”

“Trump, for his part, outlined some of the topics the leaders planned to discuss in their meetings, including "pressing issues concerning security, technology, and superintelligence" - using his preferred term for artificial intelligence.”

“The president’s statements had many experts questioning not just his intelligence, but also whether he – and the outlandish policies he was proposing – were a clear and present danger to both the US economy and the world economy.”

“On Wednesday, as reported by AP, the heads of major artificial intelligence firms "pleaded with the United Nations … to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing".”

“…eir bottom line Libertarians and techno-optimists who think regulating technological progress is bad on principle China hawks who worry that a slowdown would let China take the lead in the AI race Progressives who spent the last few years telling themselves…”