Trump Recounts Asking an AI Executive if He Liked Orange as His Team Warned Him To Prepare for Jail
- On Sunday's CBS interview, President Donald Trump said AI risks are manageable and he "doesn't mind guardrails," provided they do not place the United States in "a deep second position" behind China.
- Generally preferring voluntary self-regulation, the administration hosted a September White House gathering with Google, Meta, and OpenAI leaders who signed a safety accord calling for internal controls and outside evaluations.
- During the CBS interview, President Donald Trump revealed his team once threatened a leader of a major AI company with jail time for "a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI."
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump praised Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as an "honorable guy" despite Nvidia probing whether Huang was the "target of a foreign intelligence effort" involving a Chinese businesswoman.
- Trump frames AI development as a contest with China, arguing the United States would face an "unbelievable disadvantage" if it slowed progress while China continues without restrictions on the technology.
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Trump’s 60 Minutes interview touched on AI safety, threat to arrest an AI exec
Asked about AI executives' warnings about their models' safety on 60 Minutes, Trump said, "I think that the risk is not nearly as real as it- as they talk, and I think the risk can be managed, and it's managed." He claimed the DOJ is managing that risk, saying, "We had a situation where somebody […]
Trump Recounts Asking an AI Executive if He Liked Orange as His Team Warned Him To Prepare for Jail
Donald Trump said his administration warned an unnamed executive from a major AI company about possible jail time, but offered no details about the alleged conduct or any investigation.
Donald Trump stated that the risks associated with AI could be controlled and expressed his willingness to introduce certain precautions.
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BizTocTrump says the administration once threatened the leader of a big AI company with jail time
"We said, 'Do you like the color orange?'" Trump recounted. "We said, 'Go home right now. See your wife and children. Give them a kiss good night."
U.S. Justice Department Threatened Head of “One of the Largest” AI Companies with Prison
U.S. President Donald Trump said this on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”“We had a situation where we were told that somebody was doing something bad using AI. We called that person and were very stern and said: ‘Get ready to go to prison. Kiss your wife...
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