00:22go home right now see your wife and children give them a kiss good night because tomorrow
00:29morning you're going to jail that's the extraordinary warning u.s president donald trump claims he once
00:36delivered to a senior ai executive and now trump is revealing the story behind that threat while
00:44making his position on ai safety crystal clear speaking in an interview with cbs's 60 minutes
00:51trump described how he personally intervened after receiving a report about potentially harmful use
00:58of ai according to trump the individual was heading to one of the major ai companies when his
01:05administration contacted them with a stark warning get ready to go to jail please give your wife a kiss
01:12good night trump recalled saying he claimed the executive was told to return home spend time with
01:19their family and prepare for a possible arrest the following morning but here's where the story takes
01:25another turn trump claimed that the individual subsequently changed their entire approach to
01:32the issue this person totally changed everything he said however trump did not reveal the executive's
01:40identity name the company or provide further details about the alleged safety concerns so what does this
01:47tell us about trump's approach to ai the president is taking a somewhat contradictory position on one hand he
01:55acknowledges that ai needs safeguards but on the other he's pushing back against warnings that the technology
02:02could pose an existential threat to humanity i think that the risk is not nearly as real as they talk
02:09and i think the risk can be managed trump said in other words trump believes ai risks can be controlled
02:17without putting the brakes on technological development and there is one major reason behind that position
02:24china trump argued that america cannot afford to lose its advantage in artificial intelligence because
02:32beijing is rapidly expanding its own capabilities first of all because china's going to have it
02:38so if we don't have it china's going to have it he described the global ai race as essentially a
02:45competition between washington and beijing warning that falling behind could put the united states at an
02:51enormous disadvantage but does that mean trump opposes regulation all together not exactly the president
02:59said he had no objection to introducing guardrails and even expressed willingness to work with democrats on
03:06ai safety measures but he drew a clear line i don't mind guardrails but i don't want to put us
03:13in a deep
03:13second position trump said his argument is that safety regulations should not become so restrictive that
03:21american companies lose their competitive edge trump also contrasted america's approach with china's
03:28claiming that beijing's safeguards ultimately depend on the decisions of chinese president xi jinping
03:35meanwhile the debate over ai regulation continues to intensify in washington democrats have called for
03:42stronger protections while the trump administration has largely focused on working with american technology
03:48companies to accelerate ai development in september u.s ai companies also signed a voluntary agreement
03:56on the safe development of the technology
