Trump downplays AI risks after dire expert warnings and calls to slow development down

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, President Trump says'negative forces' bringing up AI risks that won't happen US President Donald Trump has downplayed risks posed by artificial intelligence following days of dire warnings by experts. You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up and they're bringing up things that won't happen, Trump said during a visit to Ireland. One of the warnings came from a former Anthropic researcher who said there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future if the current pace of development continued. On Saturday, top industry bosses agreed and called for a slow-down.