Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast

2h ago | The Guardian | By Presented by Jonathan Freedland, produced by John Rogers and Nada Smiljanic; the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a ‘hoax’? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery

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