Trump Rejects Slowing AI Development: Stopping Now Would Allow China to Surpass Us, Industry Sounds Doomsday Warnings
U.S. President Trump has clearly stated that the United States will not slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development. He emphasized that the U.S. currently maintains a leading position in the AI field and must safeguard this advantage—any stagnation would allow China to catch up.
As the government accelerates progress in the AI industry, alarm bells are sounding within the sector. OpenAI CEO Altman believes a 10% risk of human extinction within the next decade is entirely unacceptable. Anthropic’s CEO Amodei predicts that within the next 6–12 months, autonomous AI agents could build large-scale botnets, triggering trillion-dollar cyber disasters. A former researcher at the company even issued a warning: unconstrained superintelligence could directly destroy humanity within four years.
On one hand, there's the government’s policy priority on technological competition; on the other, ongoing survival risk warnings from technology practitioners. The internal contradictions in America’s AI development trajectory are becoming increasingly evident.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1876272804346944/
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