President Trump today announced the creation of an AI Force, named after his first-term baby, the Space Force. There was no one named to head the group or even to be part of the group, but here we go.
To recap: in the past couple of weeks, AI insiders and outsiders have been predicting that AI soon will be able to “kill us all.” This follows some AI agents burrowing into other AI engines, which seems a bit far from being able to eliminate humanity.
There have also been calls for a “kill switch” to be created so that — if these AI creatures take on a Hitlerian life of their own and start building bombs, concocting poisons, or sending ultraviolet rays to wipe us all out — we’d have a means to stop them. Now, unless I’m mistaken, AI is powered by electricity, so shouldn’t there already be a way to cut the power?
Anyway, Trump originally pooh-poohed these naysayers, who seem to have ganged together after some 20-something kid quit his AI gig and predicted AI would take over the world.
Now, here’s what Trump wrote on Truth Social today: “I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term. To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI ‘Czar’ – Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!”
However, Trump doesn’t see the AI Force as a means to constrain the development of artificial intelligence. He also wrote: “We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful.”
When the AI hysteria started to whip up about 10 or so days ago, Trump called the fearmongering a “hoax.”
“Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country,” he wrote when the furor first erupted. Not surprisingly,
Democrats in Congress are now calling for regulations on AI and a halt on its development while security steps are put in place. Or until they figure out a way to tax it into nonexistence.
