If you’ve even so much as glanced at the news recently, you may have picked up on the raging debate over AI regulation in the US. Stronger regulations are incredibly popular with Americans from across the political spectrum — but not so much with their head of state, Donald Trump.
In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City today, Trump blasted those calling for any kind of pause or slowdown to AI development. His rationale is stunning: near-total deregulation is working out great for the environment, he suggested, so why not replicate that success in the realm of AI?
“The United States… totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now,” Trump rambled to the various heads of state and their delegations. “Yet the very same people who said we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming — a name since reborn to ‘climate change,’ because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead — these are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us, that everything is going to be a total disaster.”
Trump also took the opportunity to introduce his new rebrand of the tech, from artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.”
