Trump and tech leaders sign AI "constitution" with voluntary controls; Jack Smith testifies before the Senate.
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Do you want them to stay away from homes when they're building these data centers?
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I want them to be in the right location within a community.
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Mr. President-- If you look at Loudoun County, if you look at some of these counties, they're making billions of dollars.
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Taxes are going way down.
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The data centers are making an absolute fortune.
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But now the people are going to benefit directly, whether it's teachers that get paid a bonus, whether it's people that live in the community that get paid a dividend-- you could call it a dividend because a dividend sounds right.
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It's important to stress that this would be entirely voluntary on the part of the companies, Major.
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The president can't force them to provide teacher pay or any of the other things that he described today that would be so great for local communities.
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And that reference to Loudoun County, that's in Northern Virginia, which was very bullish on data centers, but is, like much of America, reassessing some of the implications of accelerated data center development.
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I want to bring in Gaurab Bansal.
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So big meeting at the White House today, a huge convening this agreement, constitution of self-regulation-- how should my audience interpret that?
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Let's take a step back on how we got here.
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A few big companies, largely in America, built the most powerful AI.
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And thousands of companies, large and small, use that AI to make products that reach everyone in the audience.
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And this month, one company's AI got out of its test area.
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It's a bit like my dog finding a hole in the fence or, frankly, running out of the gate.
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And so the heads of these big companies are asking to be regulated.
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And so we find ourselves today with these CEOs at the White House.
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And my take is that-- I'm not sure history was made today with this nonbinding constitution that Nancy's reporting on.
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But it's clear the president's message was, we're not going to slow down, and we're not going to slow any of these companies down.
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And from my perspective, given the serious questions in front of the American people, it was a missed opportunity.
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Anthropic's IPO, according to a report that surfaced this morning from Reuters, tells investors that Anthropic models, based on their own estimates-- and I'm quoting here-- "could pose catastrophic risks to humanity."
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It could have "self-preserving behaviors to resist shutdown."
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These are all the kinds of things that have increased public awareness, 1, and public concern, 2.
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Yet, in the face of that, we have a self-regulation celebration at the White House and the president still on the full-speed-ahead trajectory.
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Look, I think if anyone in your audience is asking if there has ever been a company going public that's said that they could bring about the extinction of humanity, I think it's a question worth asking.
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Look, we have to be clear-eyed about this.
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We have to listen to the people building this technology when they're warning us about these serious risks.
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And we should talk about what those risks are.
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In fact, there are many risks that are more near term than the extinction of humanity.
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We're seeing young people have a hard time finding jobs.
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But the reality is, no one can predict the future.
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And we have to walk and chew gum.
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That goes for the companies.
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It goes for the policymakers.
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This technology could transform life for the better.
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It could certainly make things a lot worse.
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And the good news is, if we're serious about this, there's a lot of space between stopping, on the one hand, which, by the way, there's no button that stops this innovation.
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It's going to continue, certainly here and elsewhere.
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