AI development will not be stopped over ‘robot takeover hoax’ – Trump

The US president has rejected warnings from tech leaders that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat Concerns that artificial intelligence could take over the world and wipe out humanity are a hoax peddled by radical Democrats, US President Donald Trump has said, doubling down on his rejection of warnings from AI giants.The debate over AI was reignited over the weekend when Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay calling for a slowdown in the development of AI models so that researchers could assess the risks. His call was backed by Sam Altman of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and Elon Musk, whose company SpaceXAI developed the Grok chatbot.Trump responded on Monday with a series of posts on Truth Social, arguing that the concerns were being spread by “Radical Left Dumocrats, who never give up, but seldom win.”Pointing to the technological race with China, Trump hailed AI and data centers as the “Greatest Economic Development Engine in History” and promised that they “will not be stopped by brilliantly run Destructive Forces” on his watch.“I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax – That AI is going to take over, consume, and de...