Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents
Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents - Published US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration is...
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- Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents - Published US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration is considering asserting more power over artificial intelligence (AI) tools after recent cybersecurity incidents.
- Asked about OpenAI's tools being responsible for improperly breaching the private technology of other companies, Trump said: "We're looking at AI, we're looking at controls, we're also making sure that we lead." It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology.
- Trump's comments come after an escalation of not only the apparent hacking capabilities of popular AI tools, but White House threats aimed at competing Chinese tech.
- The BBC has also contacted the Chinese embassy in Washington for comment.
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Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents - Published US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration is considering asserting more power over artificial intelligence (AI) tools after recent cybersecurity incidents. Asked about OpenAI's tools being responsible for improperly breaching the private technology of other companies, Trump said: "We're looking at AI, we're looking at controls, we're also making sure that we lead." It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology. Trump's comments come after an escalation of not only the apparent hacking capabilities of popular AI tools, but White House threats aimed at competing Chinese tech. The BBC has also contacted the Chinese embassy in Washington for comment. In the last week, OpenAI has taken responsibility for at least two hacking incidents involving its AI tools acting outside of what they were designed and directed to do. The US government intervened when Anthropic, OpenAI's main American rival, decided to release to the public a model that it had previously said was too much of a risk to be made widely available.