Trump attacks 'sick conspiracy' against AI as tech stocks slide

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The US president wrote on social media: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!”

Even if we had a STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT (as opposed to the one we have right now), that statement doesn't work.

If the only thing keeping industries in check is the president, then that ends the second that the president is no longer in office. It's one of the two fundamental problems with the idea of the "benevolent dictator" -- that's an unstable situation that ends as soon as the dictator is gone.

(The other problem is that a benevolent dictator is still a dictator, no matter how benevolent, and so is in complete opposition to the notions of freedom and liberty.)

“There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!”, he wrote.

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