‘I don’t have any’: Trump brushes aside concerns over AI’s existential risks

President Donald Trump downplayed concerns about the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence raised this week by some AI researchers, saying late Thursday he was focused instead on the U.S. losing its edge in the tech arms race. Asked whether he has concerns about existential risks posed by AI, the president said, “No, I don’t have any. “I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position,” Trump told reporters late Thursday as he left Dallas. “We are leading China right now by a pretty good period.” Trump was wading into a debate over AI’s catastrophic risks ignited by a viral social media post from a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher. The post cautioned that the leading AI companies have been “gambling with our lives” and that some researchers working on the technology “believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”