Treasury Secretary Bessent Seeks To Calm AI Concerns, Acknowledges Need To 'Prepare For Every Occasion'.
- On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the U.S. and China will establish a bilateral AI-focused communications channel to ensure cooperation during major AI-related emergencies.
- President Donald Trump has repeatedly dismissed AI risks as a "hoax," yet Bessent appears more receptive to industry warnings from leaders like Anthropic's Dario Amodei regarding "frontier" AI model safety.
- Bessent criticized tech leaders for "alarmism without solutions," insisting companies must self-regulate. He also alleged that Chinese AI project Kimi is "stealing from the U.S. models," occasionally claiming to be Claude.
- While advocating "safe acceleration," the Treasury Secretary warned that China's AI models are "80%, 90% as powerful" as U.S. versions, arguing the U.S. must maintain its lead for negotiating leverage.
- In September, Bessent met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York to discuss rogue AI agent risks. Trump stated last week he does not want a formal AI safety deal.
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The head of the US Treasury, Scott Bessent, compared the heads of AI companies to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer from Thomas Harris' novel The Silence of the Lambs
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Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published on Saturday. “This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” Bessent said, as Bloomberg reported. In September, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk […] This story continues at The Next Web
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