Washington– US President Donald Trump canceled Thursday’s signing ceremony for a new order on artificial intelligence because he feared it would weaken America’s lead in artificial intelligence technology.
Trump said he was postponing signing because he did not like what he saw in the text of the order. The change was announced hours before the event was scheduled to be held in the Oval Office.
“We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that would impede that progress,” Trump told reporters at an unrelated event in the Oval Office.
The push for some sort of government action to vet the most powerful AI systems comes on the heels of growing concern within the banking industry and other institutions about… Leaps in artificial intelligence capabilities To find cybersecurity vulnerabilities in software in the world. Trump administration officials have repeatedly spoken about the cyber capabilities of Anthropic’s new Mythos model, which the AI company has not widely advertised.