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DUBLIN (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence , saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help would address the risks from the advancing technology. Other tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, publicly agreed with Amodei. Asked by a reporter if the industry should slow down or be regulated, Trump said after watching a golfer tee off in the Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg that the United States is leading China in the development of AI and “frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins.” Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to visit the U.S. later in September to meet with Trump, and AI likely will be among the items they discuss. Trump has kept up his support for data centers even as both Republicans and Democrats run from them and many communities try to block them . Where is that going to hit?

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Hakeem Jeffries, according to a transcript released by his office. While acknowledging the need for some regulation , Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify, though industry pioneers have raised such concerns. “We can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of 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 told reporters during weekend trip to Ireland . “But whoever wins with AI wins.” The Republican president spoke a day after Dario Amodei , CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, said the industry should put the brakes on its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up.

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