Trump Hosts AI CEOs to Discuss Safety Standards, Rebrands AI as 'Super Intelligence' (reuters.com) 66
hcs_$reboot writes: Trump hosted executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia, and other tech companies at the White House. They agreed to voluntary AI-safety standards, including independent audits and safeguards aimed at preventing AI systems from accessing or hacking technical systems in unintended ways. Trump also strongly backed the continued rapid expansion of AI data centers, despite concerns over their electricity demand, utility costs, and other impacts on local communities. He said he is considering creating a 10-member board to oversee AI safety and plans to appoint a new White House official to lead AI policy.
The meeting comes amid growing concerns about the risks posed by advanced AI, including reports from OpenAI and Anthropic that their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies' systems. A nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted September 17-20 found that 73% of respondents worried AI companies had not done enough to prevent AI from causing serious harm to society. During the meeting, Trump also directed government agencies to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology.
The meeting comes amid growing concerns about the risks posed by advanced AI, including reports from OpenAI and Anthropic that their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies' systems. A nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted September 17-20 found that 73% of respondents worried AI companies had not done enough to prevent AI from causing serious harm to society. During the meeting, Trump also directed government agencies to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology.
Fantasic! (Score:5, Insightful)
Will that help petroleum prices or the cost of literally anything right now?
Re:Fantasic! (Score:4, Insightful)
Rich people should be very excited about the elimination of labor. Everything can be ownership again. (you couldn't own people for some time now, which really put a wrench into assigning them a value).
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Elon Musk thinks you can, he's pursuing it in Texas.
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Who wants to own people, they're obsolete
Re: Fantasic! (Score:2)
Most states do. They get paid for housing them even if they don't use them for work.
I've never been so disappointed in my home state of California than when we voted not to ban forced and coerced prison labor.
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You'd prefer executions?
I'd prefer Nazis follow Hitler's final example instead of his final solution.
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Will that help petroleum prices or the cost of literally anything right now?
Why? When was the last time one of these billionaires bought their own gas or groceries or anything else? Minor issues like cost of living do not effect them personally.
Life is different when money is just a number on a scorecard.
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Dude, I can absolutely promise you that prices are as low as they will ever be for the rest of your life. Enjoy. :)
Hello palm, my old friend (Score:1)
Face? We have a palm alert!
Re: Hello palm, my old friend (Score:2)
So when are we going to have OpenSI IPO?
Consequences. (Score:4, Insightful)
Now that the term "super intelligence" doesn't have a distinguishing meaning anymore, we will have to find a different phrase to refer to AI that both qualifies as intelligent and further that qualifies as having intelligence beyond that of humans.
Something like...I don't know....Ultrahuman intelligence. It is less ambiguous than ultra-intelligence but is unfortunately long.
Oh well. I am sure you guys can come up with more alternatives.
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OpenAI and all the other companies with "AI" in their name may want to change their names to fit the new name of "Super Intelligence".
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OpenSuper, xSuper etc and Nvidia will become Nvidrepus
Re: Consequences. (Score:1)
Re: Consequences. (Score:2)
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At least the voters are not talking about things like Epstein, Iran, and the price of gas, which is likely the whole point; look at all the stupid, forget about the serious, and (for ~50% of the them) be sure to tick the name with "R" next to it next month like you're programmed to.
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Super Duper Tippy Top Intelligence
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Super High Intelligence Technology
"super intelligence" meaning hasn't changed (Score:3)
Now that the term "super intelligence" doesn't have a distinguishing meaning anymore, ...
Actually it still seems to have that meaning. With respect to the "crisis" they are concerned about preventing the term still refers to the same thing. As does many of their references to vague future beneficial systems.
Trump simply does not realize how broad, and how small, AI can be. He thinks only in terms of these hypothetical future systems, the beneficial and the harmful. He thinks that is all AI is. He doesn't realize that a model running on your watch today is also AI.
So Trump using the term "
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Bigly Intelligence
Let's put this in context... (Score:3)
Of course, we could say the same about a slightly brain-damaged labrador retriever, but they aren't setting national and global policy regarding the most likely cause of human extinction over the next few decades.
Super Intelligence, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody's switching to Super Intelligence (Score:1)
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Re:Nobody's switching to Super Intelligence (Score:5, Interesting)
Can't wait until Chicago renames the street Trump Tower is on to Barack Hussein Obama Way https://www.nbcchicago.com/new... [nbcchicago.com]
He thinks AI is "SkyNet" and nothing else (Score:1)
Rename the Gulf or a Great Lake? Sure. Whatever. Renaming this whole branch of computer science? No.
Nope, not much has changed, nothing meaningful. Trump thinks AI is the Hollywood portrayal of AI. He erroneously thinks it is entirely the frontier stuff. He does not realize that the small model running in a wrist watch monitoring a heartbeat is also AI. He's focused entirely on the frontier, so his use of "super intelligence" is not much of a problem.
What real experts are concerned over, what many people believe regulations are needed for, is a hypothetical "super intelligence". And that is all Trump t
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Rename the Gulf or a Great Lake? Sure. Whatever. Renaming this whole branch of computer science? No.
Nope, not much has changed, nothing meaningful. Trump thinks AI is the Hollywood portrayal of AI. He erroneously thinks it is entirely the frontier stuff. He does not realize that the small model running in a wrist watch monitoring a heartbeat is also AI. He's focused entirely on the frontier, so his use of "super intelligence" is not much of a problem.
What real experts are concerned over, what many people believe regulations are needed for, is a hypothetical "super intelligence". And that is all Trump thinks AI is. So it mostly accidentally works for oval office conversations. We just get embarrassing statements. Which is the normal day-to-day thing when Trump talks.
FTFY
Re: Super Intelligence, but... (Score:1)
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Re:Now I'm confused (Score:5, Informative)
First stop taking Propaganda from Fox News and maybe read the actual text of the proposed legislation. Nothing is being banned and ironically enough it's something Trump also wants, a department of AI. Or maybe SI depending on what he changed it to this week.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p... [pbs.org] The bill, provided first to The Associated Press, would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.
The headline is also from the "liberal media" btw.
Re: Now I'm confused (Score:2)
The department will ensure that only approved donors are allowed to provide AI services.
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First stop taking Propaganda from Fox News and maybe read the actual text of the proposed legislation. Nothing is being banned and ironically enough it's something Trump also wants, a department of AI. Or maybe SI depending on what he changed it to this week.
So then WTF is this?
"No person may develop, deploy (either internally or externally), acquire, possess, fund, import, or transfer artificial superintelligence or artificial intelligence systems that display one or more superintelligence precursor characteristics, including any elements sufficient to reconstruct the artificial superintelligence or artificial intelligence systemâ(TM)s capabilities."
"No person may deploy (either internally or externally), release, transfer, or import an artificial intelli
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WTF is wrong with Democrats?
Nothing, you're just a fucking idiot.
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In fact, there is a lot wrong with Democrats. If there was nothing wrong with them, no one would be voting Trump over Democrats.
Leaving aside bipartisan issues like corruption, lies, and incompetence... Where Democrats fall behind Republicans these days is that Democrats consider party discipline more important than election results, or even any results at all. Republicans took note that Trump was making waves, understood that the wind was changing, and they remade the Party in his image to get ahead. Democ
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Not only that, Democrats have lost the ability to govern and are basically imploding by now, only making half-hearted noise about issues, but folding every hand without any actual fight. Pity.
They're infected with AIPAC.
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Re:Now I'm confused (Score:4, Informative)
What do you support regarding AI? And what do "Bernie and AOC want to ban" that you support? Details matter.
Last I heard, Bernie was proposing public ownership of AI. Hard to believe that would include "banning" it.
And Bernie isn't a Democrat.
"WTF is wrong with Democrats?"
You are what's wrong.
I saw another story this morning... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Where's Melania from again?
It's a conspiracy, I tells ya!
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https://threadreaderapp.com/th... [threadreaderapp.com] yeah - the mass-buying started back in June, months before any announce or post was ever made on the matter. And yes, several are now selling for millions.
Welcome to the new "Boeing" (Score:1)
We all know what happened when we let them regulate themselves...
This is just another sham distraction, I mean, it's effective and all, but still a sham.
Re:Welcome to the new "Boeing" (Score:4, Interesting)
The AI industry calling for regulation is a better sham still. They know the regulation will be toothless, there is nothing for them to fear. But if the "regulation" materializes, they can deflect any liability for the sizable damage they cause by pointing out they follow regulation.
Related are the calls to get public oversight in the form of part government ownership. Which is a ploy to sell their inflated stock to taxpayer suckers, to get the government on the leash to pave the way for them with all of their problems, and to get a guarantee of government bailout if things get sour.
Beautiful in it's own right, but oh so cynical and evil. Get with the times, I guess.
Convenient Response Generator (Score:2)
Meaningful response to legitimate concerns avoided!
"Super Intelligence" but with misspelled country (Score:1)
He seems to deteriorate fast (Score:4, Funny)
Super Intelligence? The A in AI stands for AMERICA! so it should be called American Intelligence! :)
Well, I suppose that compared to Trump ... (Score:4, Insightful)
most AI is Super Intelligent.
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Purge them (Score:2)
Trump's entire gene pool should get expunged from the face of the planet.
this is another grift (Score:3)
per a twitter post, someone did some searching and found that .si (Slovenia, yes where Melania's from) domains were being bought at an average of about 400 / month, usually with words in their own language.
But starting in *JUNE* (months before this announcement or any other like it), scalpers started buying up .si domains with common and corporate english words by the thousands...and now those domains are selling for millions.
Somebody knew it was coming, months ago. This was very well planned out to make some people very rich, possibly including Trump O itself, or those who buy his NFTs/Coins. That whole paying to get private access? This is what they're told to do in those back-door meetings.
https://threadreaderapp.com/th... [threadreaderapp.com]
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Not Stable Genius Intelligence? (Score:2)
I'm shocked!
Metric units... (Score:3)
The Imperial (march) units SI = Stupid Intentional
Epstein files (Score:4, Insightful)
let's see them.
This terminoligy is a hoax (Score:2)
AI is "super intelligence" in the same way that a computer is a "super calculator". In other words, it is not intelligent at all. It only does really fast pattern-matching, just like a computer can do really fast numerical calculations.
On the other hand, compared to the average American, maybe it does appear to be super intelligent.
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AI is "super intelligence" in the same way that a computer is a "super calculator". In other words, it is not intelligent at all. It only does really fast pattern-matching, just like a computer can do really fast numerical calculations.
On the other hand, compared to the average American, maybe it does appear to be super intelligent.
Interesting people who make these arguments tend to speak in terms of modalities rather than capabilities. It's a pattern matching token predicting statistical glorified autocomplete not even AI.
All the while completely ignoring demonstrated capabilities or excusing them away under mountains of unfalsifiable rhetoric.