During his visit to Ireland on Sunday, US President Trump downplayed the recent calls made by a number of US AI industry leaders to slow down the development of cutting-edge AI capabilities and strengthen security measures, and stated that he did not want the US to lose its leading edge over China. Trump told reporters that the US is currently “leading China” in the field of artificial intelligence, and he hopes to maintain this advantage because “whoever wins in AI will win.” He said it was possible to set up some “fences” for AI, but did not specify specific measures; at the same time, he attributed some of the warnings to unnamed “negative forces,” saying that these people proposed some “things that won't happen.”

During his visit to Ireland on Sunday, US President Trump downplayed the recent calls made by a number of US AI industry leaders to slow down the development of cutting-edge AI capabilities and strengthen security measures, and stated that he did not want the US to lose its leading edge over China. Trump told reporters that the US is currently “leading China” in the field of artificial intelligence, and he hopes to maintain this advantage because “whoever wins in AI will win.” He said it was possible to set up some “fences” for AI, but did not specify specific measures; at the same time, he attributed some of the warnings to unnamed “negative forces,” saying that these people proposed some “things that won't happen.”