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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Trump downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn't want to cede edge to China

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 address the risks from the advancing technology.

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.

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