Calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence technologies have grown louder from the very companies that have led the frantic race to continually introduce the most powerful models. While these calls have been met with condemnation from US President Donald Trump , the biggest obstacle to them is not government support, but rather whether they can be enforced.
No company or statement addressed any proposed mechanisms to slow down the development of artificial intelligence; their owners merely called for a slowdown without putting forward a real vision of how this slowdown would be implemented.
A Politico raises a number of questions about the mechanisms for implementing this slowdown. Will it require coordination between the US and Chinese governments, which are leading the race to develop artificial intelligence? Or will it require new legislation that allows major American companies to consult with each other about the level of development their models have reached?
Silicon Valley's calls to slow down development come against a backdrop of other concerns raised by AI experts that the technology has gone beyond the point where it can be stopped, according to a separate report from Politico.
Is it realistically possible to slow down the development of artificial intelligence? Or are these unrealistic demands from AI company leaders?
In contrast, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged companies to accelerate as much as they can, adding that he envisions a future in which every company and organization directly relies on artificial intelligence technologies.
This was agreed upon by the US President during a direct telephone conversation he had with Huang during the recent "All In" summit, describing all the warnings as a hoax.
China is the only winner
Trump expressed his displeasure with these calls, noting that the only beneficiary would be China, which would not slow down the development of its own artificial intelligence models, through a series of posts on the Truth Social social platform and repeated in his conversation with Huang.
Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, also agrees with Trump's viewpoint, saying in his conversation with Politico: "If these robots are going to be deadly, I would prefer them to be American rather than Chinese."
He explained that Chinese companies do not place any controls or restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence and robotics models, but rather push with all their might to develop the most powerful models.
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