Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published on Saturday.
“This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” Bessent said, as Bloomberg reported.
In September, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk called for the industry to slow work on its most advanced models. Bill Gates warned AI could cause a billion deaths.
Bessent said the job of managing those risks belongs to the companies.
“It is the people at the labs who have to accept responsibility, and I agree with that,” he said.
Asked about executives calling for regulation, he replied: “Well, then they should slow down.”
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Bessent echoed Donald Trump, who has called AI doom warnings a hoax and rejected new federal rules.
“We cannot...
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