President Donald Trump tickled the funny bones of tech giants with his handling of a CNN reporter.
On Tuesday, the president hosted several AI leaders at the White House, including ex-WH Crypto and AI Czar David Sacks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was also in attendance as the group discussed various critical issues surrounding the development and use of AI.
Trump couldn’t help but get some shots in at CNN as the group answered questions from reporters.
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One reporter specifically wanted to hear from Amodei, “where [he is] today” after the summit.
“Look, I mean, I will say what I’ve always said, which is that AI has incredible benefits. I’ve talked about the medical benefits of the technology. As the president has said, whoever wins AI, wins. I think that’s very important. But I think the technology has very real risks, and the mechanism- how we address those risks- is still under discussion. But we all need to work together to make sure that we can win, and we can win safely. If we do this right, we work with the president and everyone here,” he said.
“Do you think that self-policing is enough?” another reporter asked, prompting the president to jump in.
“Hold it, hold it. CNN, fake news. She’s fake news,” he pointed, alerting the tech giants behind him.
“Do you think that self-policing is enough?” the reporter insisted.
“The worst,” Trump quipped as the men cracked up. “Dario has been fantastic. We had dinner the other night, and he agrees with everyone. I mean, we all agree. Mark had a view that was, I thought, really right down, right down the middle.”
The president then called Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg up to give a brief statement on AI safety.
“I can kind of summarize what I think we all signed today, which is the White House accord on developing this technology safely. The basic idea is that we want to give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way that we intend. Right?” he said. “So, every company is building something that’s a little bit different. You know, having one set of standards for what, what everyone should want to build. People want to do some different things, but I think what we can all agree on is that the American public and our customers want to know that what we’re building is working in the way that we all intend.”
“So we drafted a set of principles and commitments around building robust internal controls and detecting if there are any issues with the technology, coupled with multiple layers of auditing and controls, starting with internal risk review, external auditors, and evaluators. And agreeing that we’re going to have all of our boards of directors independently review the reports that come from the auditors. I think that these are good steps forward,” he continued. “The idea isn’t that this is the only thing that we will ever do; it is that this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to. And I was very proud to have that discussion with a number of our colleagues who I think are running great companies. You know, it was sort of a historic conversation. I don’t think anything like this has come before, and I think this is a meaningful step forward. So, thank you.”
“We want it all to be safe. This is tremendous good. We want it to be safe. And they’re going to be watching over each other,” Trump confirmed.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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