Trump dismisses calls for AI slowdown from leading tech CEOs

Most of the talk in Washington is now about the potential danger of artificial intelligence. But in Ireland, U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed those concerns. Whoever wins, AI wins. And we can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative voices, and they're bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up. And they're bringing up things that won't happen. He's talking about Jacob Coxon, who quit his job at Anthropic, posting a dire warning on social media that the people building AI believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. And if you extrapolate into the future, they could have strongly superhuman hacking capabilities, very superhuman abilities to create novel bioweapons, and also abilities to control, say, autonomous drones or all the robots that are currently being built very rapidly. His former boss at Anthropic, Dario Amodei, responded, posting an essay online calling for all companies to slow down the development of AI. And then the other tech bosses weighed in. The CEOs of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind, all posting to social media their agreement. But at a recent conference, the CEO of chipmaker NVIDIA, Jensen Wang, argued this is all just a marketing ploy that the companies are using to scare people into buying their cybersecurity products. Still, more Americans are voicing their concerns about the potential harm of AI and the data centers needed to run it. Across the country, protests like these are spreading. In this case, residents of Raleigh, North Carolina, fighting against this massive data center for Amazon. These construction sites now litter the country, a visible sign of the rapid growth of AI. Now some are asking, is it too fast and too dangerous, or a manipulative move meant to drive up companies' stock prices? Patty Culhane, Al Jazeera, Washington.