Trump defends US technological advantage over China in AI, Gates calls for global regulation

Trump: “China behind us, I won't stop”

According to Trump, the priority for the United States is to maintain its technological advantage over China. "It's just that it's a huge industry. We're ahead of China and we're building trillions of dollars worth of facilities. Why should we give it up? If there's something wrong, they have to fix it," the tycoon told Fox News. The president also reiterated that new regulations to limit the development of artificial intelligence, or "superintelligence" as he called it, would risk allowing Beijing to overtake the United States.

“AI could surpass the Industrial Revolution”

While acknowledging the fears of Dario Amodei, Anthropic's number one, about the risks of too rapid development, Trump compared the growth of AI to the Industrial Revolution. "It really is like the Industrial Revolution, in fact it could surpass the Industrial Revolution. Who would have thought? And it is, in fact, bigger than the Internet," he added. During the American night, Trump also participated in a private dinner with Amodei and, according to rumours, together with the Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson, tomorrow he is expected to meet the leaders of the main artificial intelligence companies.

Bill Gates: “The US should take the lead on AI regulation”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates meanwhile urged the United States to take a leading role in regulating the growth of artificial intelligence, but warned that reaching international agreement on a global regulatory framework could prove "more difficult" than Cold War-era negotiations to limit nuclear weapons. "Nobody thinks that self-regulation is enough. So a law needs to be passed in Washington," Gates said, speaking on NBC's 'Meet the Press'. "AI is certainly powerful enough to trigger events that cause a billion deaths, right? So, while it's quite difficult to reach absolute certainty, there has never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of malicious individuals using the latest AI tools," Gates said, in an assessment made during the interview previewed by NBC in recent days. Gates then criticized the Trump administration's approach, which considers AI exclusively from the perspective of global competition with China, neglecting its existential security risks.