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As AI CEOs call for a slowdown, President Trump wants acceleration. But the issue is gaining bipartisan momentum.
Where does Steve Bannon fit in the debate over regulating or slowing AI? He tells Morning Edition where he breaks with Trump and what he thinks Washington should do.
NYTimes – US As AI CEOs call for a slowdown, President Trump wants acceleration. But the issue is gaining bipartisan momentum.
As AI CEOs call for a slowdown, President Trump wants acceleration. But the issue is gaining bipartisan momentum.
NPR – US
NYTimes – Business At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’ The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China. Speaking at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday, the ideological advers…
NPR – Politics The poles of U.S. politics are coming together over AI. Sanders and Bannon will appear at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington, D.C., to convince Congress to work faster to curb the impact of AI.
NYTimes – US The two men will appear separately at an event calling for a “pro-human” approach to A.I. as warnings mount from the industry and the technology’s danger becomes a midterm issue.
The FBI arrested Wanying Zhang, also known as Heather, at Los Angeles International Airport as she was departing for China, accusing her of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government by surveilling the son and family of Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te at the behest of Chinese officials. Lai condemned the alleged operation as a "barbaric" act and criticized China for disregarding human rights and suppressing personal freedoms.
BBC News – World A Gulfstream G100 medical transport plane carrying six people from Bermuda to Boston crashed off the coast of Massachusetts early Saturday. The US Coast Guard found debris near Nantucket and suspended its search for survivors on Sunday; all six are presumed dead.
NPR – US Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican U.S. House speaker, died Saturday of natural causes at his home while receiving hospice care, a coroner said Monday. He was 84. Hastert represented Illinois in Congress for two decades and served as speaker from 1999 to 2007. He was later imprisoned in a hush-money case tied to sexual abuse allegations.
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