Why Trump is all-in on AI despite the warnings

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Why is Donald Trump so opposed to regulating AI? According to Donald Trump, concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology - that robots will be marching into our cities and getting rid of us all - are a hoax. It's the kind of language the US president typically reserves for the objects of his most intense derision - theories about human-driven climate change, investigations into Russian election-meddling, and the drives to impeach and remove him from office during his first presidential term. Styling himself as the hoax buster, in a series of social media posts on Monday he issued a full-throated endorsement of what he called the greatest economic development engine in history and scorned those who doubted the benefits of the technology. The ranks of doubters have been growing in recent weeks, however, amidst anxiety over the disruptive nature of AI - if not worries about potentially civilisation-threatening danger - among some industry insiders and politicians, including from within Trump's own Republican Party.