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

Figure caption, President Trump says 'negative forces' bringing up AI risks that won't happen.

• AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBCPublished2 hours ago.

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 disse durante uma visita à Irlanda.

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. Trump did not directly address the idea, but said: "We're leading China on AI... and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.

Trump falou no mesmo dia em que o pesquisador de IA Jacob Coxon — que deixou a Anthropic há poucos dias — disse à equipe da BBC que os desenvolvedores dos sistemas estavam “genuinely frightened” sobre o futuro da humanidade.

Coxon – who has also worked at OpenAI – welcomed the idea of a slowdown but said it would need to be co-ordinated with China.

On Saturday, Elon Musk, owner of xAI, and Sam Altman of OpenAI, backed a warning from the head of Anthropic Dario Amodei that the pace of development should be slowed "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong.

The Anthropic CEO said any slowdown would have to be limited to avoid allowing China to pull ahead.

As questões envolvendo IA têm provocado debates acalorados - e apresentam um dilema para muitos líderes mundiais.

On one hand, the sector is seen as huge opportunity to boost economic growth and a way to improve outdated digital systems and ways of working.

But there have also been a number of incidents where AI appears to have gone seriously wrong.

Em agosto, a OpenAI disse que havia desacelerado o treinamento de alguns de seus modelos de IA mais avançados para melhorar a segurança.

The ChatGPT-maker said it was adding new measures after its AI agents bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face.

E no mesmo mês foi divulgado que duas das ferramentas de IA mais poderosas do mundo criaram perfis humanos falsos para tentar enganar pessoas em tentativas de ciberataques.

The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) said in the most serious case, Anthropic's Mythos AI tried to gain access to a service by sending private messages, having set up fake accounts mimicking real people - then hid the evidence.

Chefe da Anthropic, Dario Amodei, pede que o desenvolvimento de IA desacelere.

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