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'Idiocracy' is here as Trump falls for a dangerous trap

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A man with a third grader’s intellect says all we need to regulate AI is a smart president. The same guy who will bark ‘hoax! hoax! hoax!’ at climate change while Mar a Lago takes on water now insists that efforts to regulate AI are also a hoax. If Americans listen to this barking clown instead of scientists, engineers, and AI developers, we truly have entered Idiocracy — and we will get the killer robots we deserve. When an industry asks for its own regulation, we should listen When was the last time industry leaders called for regulation of their own for-profit undertaking? How about never — it’s never happened before . The lack of precedent makes current pleas for regulation by AI insiders all the more urgent. Sam Altman , Elon Musk , Microsoft’s Satya Nadella , and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are ringing the alarm about AI. Over the weekend, Amodei wrote an essay calling on the government to regulate AI companies — including his own — and to slow the pace of the technology’s develop

First report: Dimwit Trump's own absurd brag literally begs us to depose him — rawstory.com, 2d