US President Donald Trump has announced the creation of an 'AI Force' and the appointment of an AI overseer. Trump stated that his administration would 'not in any way hinder or stifle' the industry, but offered no details or timeline for the plan.
Trump dismissed calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence, reiterating his previous comments that concerns over potential AI risks were 'a hoax'. On social media, he stated: 'AI is the next industrial revolution, or the internet, but it will be even bigger and more impactful, potentially up to 20 percent of our country's GDP.' He added that he wants the United States to continue leading China in the field of artificial intelligence.
Trump stated that his administration would use the existing criminal and civil justice system to target anyone using artificial intelligence in an improper manner. Artificial intelligence is set to be one of the topics when Trump meets with President Xi Jinping next week.
The announcement comes as experts and companies developing AI warn of risks. One researcher estimated that there is a greater than 10 percent chance that artificial intelligence could 'kill all humans'. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google stand behind the models Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
The head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, recently called for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence, proposing a slowdown and regulation across the industry, as well as independent monitoring of AI model development. Sam Altman from OpenAI and Elon Musk from xAI stated that they agreed with Amodei's recommendations. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, told the BBC that a 'kill switch', which could be verified by a third party, should perhaps be mandatory for the industry.
Altman suggested this week that Washington is struggling with the pace of the new technology and the way it should be regulated. At a conference in San Francisco, he said: 'The world needs to believe that we will do the right thing, because it is the right thing and we feel the weight of this.'
In the United Kingdom, members of different parties and members of the House of Lords have identified risks to human rights posed by artificial intelligence, stating that existing laws are inadequate for the rapid growth of the technology. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has published a report calling for a new artificial intelligence law that would address 'the scale and seriousness' of such threats.
