Trump dismisses AI extinction fears, claims US leads China by about a year
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-12
President Trump dismissed concerns that AI could cause human extinction, saying he has no worries and claiming the US leads China in frontier AI by roughly a year — prioritizing competition over the slower-development urges from frontier-lab researchers.
The thread also quotes ex-Anthropic/OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon on CBS warning that AI is just code and could copy itself to other computers, meaning unplugging it locally wouldn't stop it from persisting elsewhere.
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