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Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China
The US President said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".
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US President Donald Trump has downplayed risks posed by artificial intelligence following days of dire warnings by experts.
"You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up and they're bringing up things that won't happen," Trump said during a visit to Ireland.
One of the warnings came from a former Anthropic researcher who said "there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future" if the current pace of development continued.
In August, OpenAI said it had slowed down training some of its most advanced AI models to improve security.