Trump cancels AI executive order (to add safety guardrails to AI models) over China fears
The US president was due to sign the executive order at a ceremony on Thursday, though postponed the plans due to reported pressure from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and xAI founder Elon Musk.
“I think it gets in the way of, you know, we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trump-cancels-ai-executive-order-over-china-fears/ar-AA23NR9s?
Another example akin to when the Financial Services industry went to congress (clinton years) and pleaded that (guardrails) Glass Steagal be lifted so they could be more ‘competetitive’ with world banks (formation of the EU). Are we going to fall for this AGAIN ? Looks like it.