President Donald Trump called off a Thursday signing ceremony for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull Americas edge on AI technology.
Trump said he was postponing the signing because he didnt like what he saw in the orders text. He announced the change hours before the event was scheduled to take place in the Oval Office.
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Were leading China, were leading everybody, and I dont want to do anything thats going to get in the way of that lead, Trump told reporters at an unrelated Oval Office event.
Push for some kind of government action to vet the most powerful AI systems follows growing concern within the banking industry and other institutions about the leaps in AIs abilities to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the worlds software. Trump administration officials have repeatedly talked of the cyber capabilities of the new Mythos model from Anthropic, which the AI company has not made widely public.
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