When asked if he had concerns about AI leading to human extinction, Trump said, "No, I don't have any. "
"I have concerns that if we don't win AI, we're going to be put in a very bad position," the president told reporters Thursday. "We are leading China right now by a pretty good period, I would say a year, which is, you know, considered a lot. "sup
The U.S. and China are locked in a battle for AI supremacy, with tensions ratcheting up as Chinese AI models have become across the globe.
Trump's comments came after a number of researchers at frontier AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, sounded the alarm over the of the tech.
Growing concerns
He added that those building AI believed that it could "kill us all by the end of the decade" — a view which has since been echoed by other employees at the labs.
Many AI safety fears revolve around models developing the ability to improve their own performance, a technique known as recursive self-improvement, or RSI.
"It's hard to overstate how dangerous speeding towards RSI is," 
In July, Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., and Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., announced plans to introduce a bill called the FRONTIER Act, which aims to establish a framework for governing the deployment of advanced AI models.
"Safety researchers are resigning, powerful AI models are breaking out of their labs, and companies are racing ahead anyway," Trahan wrote in
Earlier this month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, introduced a bill called the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would temporarily pause advanced AI development until the federal government establishes safety rules.
