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The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim

Shakeel Hashim argues in The Guardian that the US government is failing Americans on AI, writing that Donald Trump and Republican leadership want companies to regulate themselves, which Hashim calls a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe. Hashim notes that Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei all called over a weekend for AI development to slow down amid growing risks, and that one researcher publicly quit while accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of "gambling with our lives.

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The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim
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By Shakeel HashimSource:

The Guardian Technology Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe

It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren too, with one researcher publicly quitting and accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of “gambling with our lives”.

The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action. Instead, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership have their heads in the sand.

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