Scott Bessent Compares AI Execs To Hannibal Lecter

Scott Bessent compares AI CEOs who warn of catastrophe to Hannibal Lecter: 'Stop me before I kill again'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Silicon Valley doesn't need the government to intervene.

The head of the US Treasury, Scott Bessent, compared the heads of AI companies to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer from Thomas Harris' novel The Silence of the Lambs

The head of the US Treasury, Scott Bessent, compared the heads of AI companies to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer from Thomas Harris' novel The Silence of the Lambs.In an interview with Axios, he commented on the calls of some heads of AI companies...

Scott Bessent Compares AI Execs To Hannibal Lecter

Scott Bessent compared artificial intelligence executives who are calling for government regulation to serial killers who are begging to be locked up. The post Scott Bessent Compares AI Execs Yearning for Regulation To Hannibal Lecter: ‘Stop Me Before I Kill Again!’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Scott Bessent Compares AI CEOs Seeking Regulation to Hannibal Lecter

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had some things to say about pro-regulation tech leaders that might go down better with fava beans and a nice Chianti. During a Saturday appearance on “The Axios Show,” Bessent compared CEOs who want the government to slap guardrails on AI to a reviled cinematic figure. “I mean, it’s kind of like Hannibal Lecter: Stop me before I kill again,” Bessent said. “This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI commun…

Bessent says AI industry must own its risks and find solutions

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticised prominent artificial-intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions.