President Donald Trump is setting up a new loyalty test for the GOP on artificial intelligence, and House Republicans have to decide whether it’s an exam they want to pass.
On the one hand, their party’s standard-bearer posted multiple times on Truth Social Monday that warnings of the risks posed by rapidly-developing AI technology is a “HOAX” and urged Republicans not to fall behind China by regulating the industry.
On the other hand, the heads of the nation’s leading AI labs united over the weekend in petitioning Congress to put guardrails on AI development to prevent a human extinction-level catastrophe in a matter of years — a message that’s becoming difficult to ignore on Capitol Hill.