Donald Trump
45th and 47th President of the United States, Republican.
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- 🎭 AI on stage
“we're all speeding up... we have to make sure the safety systems are also speeding up”
Source→“The Trump administration suspended Microsoft from a key green card program yesterday. A few hours later, it honored CEO Satya Nadella with an innovation medal.”
“The Trump administration froze new and pending permanent labor certification applications involving Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capgemini, citing alleged abuse of skilled-worker immigration programs”
Source→“Satya Nadella received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Trump just hours after Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of abusing a major skilled-worker visa program”
Source→“The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.”
“President Trump is expected to tap Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, for the added role as AI czar, though he will probably choose a different name for the position.”
Source→“the day after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to call artificial intelligence 'super intelligence.'”
Source→“President Donald Trump is likely to name Jay Clayton – the current director of national intelligence and former SEC chair – as his new AI czar, with Clayton possibly retaining his intelligence post, as well.”
Source→“Neither Trump nor the AI titans have plausible deniability. Their fortunes have become so tightly bound that success will be shared — and failure impossible to disown.”
Source→“AI leaders have applied pressure on regulators to help engineer a pause in frontier model development, but Trump instead has endorsed voluntary standards, saying the U.S. can't risk giving up its technological advantage.”
“President Donald Trump announced a voluntary AI safety accord after a White House gathering... calling the agreement 'morally binding' and emphasizing industry self-policing over new federal restrictions.”
Source→“President Trump, Vice President Vance, other administration officials and industry leaders will gather for an event to celebrate the beginning of a 'Golden Age' and highlight AI.”
Source→“President Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and tech CEOs will hold an AI meeting on Sept. 29, a source familiar told Maria.”
Source→“President Trump said yesterday he is directing 'all United States documents' to refer to AI as 'super intelligence.'”
Source→“President Donald Trump said the U.S. government will begin referring to AI as 'super intelligence' in official documents.”
Source→“the Justice Department and other law-enforcement agencies could 'rein' in AI if necessary... while... his administration would avoid slowing the technology's development”
Source→“The stock market soared during the first 20 months of President Trump's second term, but slightly underperformed the same period of his first term.”
“He picks up the phone. He calls the Speaker of the House. He said, get it in the bill.”
Source→“Former Vice President Kamala Harris this week endorsed slowing down and called on President Trump to pursue a treaty with China.”
Source→“The Trump administration argues that the AI safety worldview associated with EA would put America at risk of falling behind China in the AI race.”
Source→“Trump put a 'MAGA filter' on his laissez-faire approach to AI regulation, saying that safety concerns are little more than 'hoaxes' perpetrated by the 'radical left.'”
“We're leading China in AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins.”
Source→“President Trump said he has no concerns that AI could cause human extinction, arguing instead that the greater risk is falling behind China.”
Source→“we're starting to see signs of trust in that Xi Jinping and Trump are going to be meeting next month. But there is no clear way to actually do the verification part of this”
Source→“At what he does, he is as good as Napoleon was at what he did”
Source→“I think Donald Trump is an existential crisis. You think Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, or Hakeem Jeffries are an existential crisis. I don't”
Source→“"The minute that Trump coin got launched, it went from 'crypto is bipartisan' to 'crypto equals Trump equals bad, equals corruption.'" — Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson”
“Democrats are blocking it over Trump's crypto entanglements: his financial disclosures revealed $1.4 billion in earnings from his crypto ventures since returning to the White House.”
“Democrats are facing a very unpopular president, an economy that voters have a lot of anxiety about... the very, very long history of the president's party drawing a backlash and performing poorly at the midterms... I think the partisan gravity is more likely than not just too much for Trump to overcome.”
Source→“President Trump signed two executive orders aimed at accelerating U.S. quantum-computing development, including a 2028 target for a quantum computer powerful enough to conduct scientific research, while also moving up the government's deadline for quantum-resistant security systems to 2031.”
Source→“He responded to us very quickly because you know it's a tremendous liability... And he responded very responsibly, I thought. — Trump”
Source→“The race to beat China on AI still outweighs the political clashes with Anthropic or its peers, in Trump's view.”
Source→“It's great having world-beating AI firms, but you do rather rely on the rest of the world buying their stuff to get the full benefit... for those next few years, Trump will be president. That means Anthropic, and in theory, every US model-maker, lives or dies by Caesar's thumb.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.