In Silicon Valley, AI Founders Cheer Trump’s Calls for the Industry to Police Itself on Safety – WTOP News
The White House’s voluntary safety pact drew support from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, SpaceXAI and Nvidia as regulators opened new probes.
- President Donald Trump brought tech leaders to Washington recently for a voluntary safety pact on 'Super Intelligence,' encouraging labs to monitor their own progress without providing specific enforcement details.
- During Tech Week in San Francisco on Wednesday, venture capitalists and AI founders praised the government's hands-off stance, citing $1 trillion in defense spending with $13.5 billion allocated to autonomous systems and AI.
- David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's safety team until recently resigning, warned that self-policing is "no substitute for hard law," while Sarah Myers West, former Federal Trade Commission AI adviser, said the voluntary approach "has consistently done one thing, which is failed to work."
- The FTC opened an investigation last month into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other companies over consumer dangers. OpenAI separately fired three researchers who posted that 'fear and unclear rules stymie AI safety work.'
- After the event, Trump told reporters, "I'm seeing tremendous self-policing." His administration continues reorienting federal policy away from oversight, having repealed Biden-era executive orders aimed at guarding against AI risks to consumers.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence - namely, don’t do it.And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from U.S. government websites to healthcare data, the nation now finds itself further from governing AI sy…
AI founders cheer Trump's calls for the industry to police itself on safety in Silicon Valley
President Donald Trump brought tech titans to Washington late last month for a luncheon and ceremonial signing of a voluntary safety pact he described as "almost a constitution" surrounding "Super Intelligence," the administration's new preferred term for AI.
In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety – WTOP News
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it. And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything...
Donald Trump has brought AI companies together to sign a voluntary self-regulation agreement. Understanding advances, but the world questions whether AI companies have the conditions to be police of themselves.
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