Richard Arnold: US correspondent on the growing calls to take AI risks seriously
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What are the current AI risk warnings from tech leaders and why are they urgent?
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Stateside, Richard Arnold, morning to you. Good morning, Mike. So how are we going with these AI threats and chatter?
Not super well. You know, the Tech Titans are joining the call for slowdown on all of this, but then the politicians don't seem to have much of a clue, do they? The boss of Anthropic, Dario Amada, is out now with a series of proposals which has led the bosses of OpenAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, SpaceX and others to nod their heads in general approval.
How is President Trump framing AI competition with China as a ‘win‑or‑lose’ issue?
But there is not yet any agreement on regulatory measures and the politicians well Trump is saying whoever wins with AI wins. Trump was pressed on this.
Do you have any concerns about AI leading to human extinction?
No, I don't have any. I have uh concerns that if we don't win AI, we're gonna be put in a very bad position.
Beat the Chinese seems to be about as far as his response to the AI warnings goes. On the Democratic side, former President Obama is calling on his party's candidates for twenty eight to make AI one of their top issues. The top Democrat in the House right now, Hakeem Jeffries, has slammed Republicans for moving too slowly on this, but when asked for specific ideas, he wouldn't say, except to suggest there will be discussions on it this week sometime. No better on the Republican side where Speaker Mike Johnson is saying on this subject.
I believe we need to summon the platform providers all to one big meeting and work this out together in the same room. Hold a meeting.
Yeah, that'll fix it.
What are the Democratic and Republican parties proposing to address AI safety?
Uh the anthropic boss, Amaday, is putting forward some real ideas, saying he is concerned by the recent cases of AI systems going rogue and by AI working on its own self improvement. He says to start with, AI could seize large parts of the internet and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, but then it could get even into More dangerous areas. So Emma Day suggests that in less than two weeks when Trump and China's President Xi meet up, uh they should take an initial action on this. Step one, he says, should be this.
The small thing is if we
could US and China could agree that we won't use AI to develop biological weapons or release AI models that bioterrorists could use to develop biological weapons. We're already both signatories to the biological weapons convention.
More broadly, he is posing some sort of general slowdown.
Particularly if we don't sell chips to authoritarian countries and if we do more to help our own security so that our technology is not stolen. I believe that will buy us at least a little time.
International cooperation on technology that could transform economies and perhaps even threaten human existence. Yeah, sure.
Which concrete slowdown measures are Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and other AI CEOs suggesting?
Uh says Amaday on all of this now.
This is the thing that most puts us in a bind. It's not about commercial competition. This the geopolitical situation is the hardest to deal with.
Even within the US AI companies, he suggests that Anthropic could employ independent evaluators and says other AI companies could do the same thing. But ask if these companies right now even have a chat group among themselves. Amada simply laughed.
Right, so then the war and the Houthis movement in Yemen over the weekend, where's this take us?
Well, a few other things as well. You know, it seems to be moving on several fronts. Another tanker has just been struck in the Strait of Humuz on the southern Amani track. A fire was ignited there. Latest data shows that on Saturday your time only one tanker got through the oil channel, when before the war, of course, there would have been many, many.
How could U.S.–China cooperation prevent AI‑enabled biological weapons and other threats?
Earlier Iran claimed to have targeted ten ships, including eight oil tankers, and the US military destroyed several Iranian oil tankers in what has kind of turned into the tanker wars.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the current AI risk warnings from tech leaders and why are they urgent?
0:00–0:54
2
How is President Trump framing AI competition with China as a ‘win‑or‑lose’ issue?
0:54–1:54
3
What are the Democratic and Republican parties proposing to address AI safety?
1:54–3:10
4
Which concrete slowdown measures are Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and other AI CEOs suggesting?
3:10–3:57
5
How could U.S.–China cooperation prevent AI‑enabled biological weapons and other threats?
3:57–4:59
6
What new regulations (e.g., AI‑powered toys bans) are emerging and how might they impact the industry?
4:59–6:19
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