

The US president rejects calls from leading AI executives to slow development, calling concerns about a robot takeover a hoax and vowing to press ahead in the technological race with China.

The US president rejects calls from leading AI executives to slow development, calling concerns about a robot takeover a hoax and vowing to press ahead in the technological race with China.
It ends the way it always does. Two governments sprinting, nobody touching the brake, and the bill posted to the rest of us. Safety warnings get filed under “later”. Later never comes. We get a catastrophe, a hearing, a sternly worded report, and a fresh race. Rinse. Repeat. Utterly predictable, and they’ll call that leadership.