Donald Trump spoke against the regulation of artificial intelligence in an address to the UN, comparing this issue to climate change. This is reported by Scientific American AI.
The president also stated that artificial intelligence should be renamed 'superintelligence.' The available material provides only a brief synopsis of the source, so details of the speech and reactions to it are not clarified.
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Why it matters
A likely consequence is an intensification of the debate over the limits of state control over AI and how to publicly describe the technology. The next observable signals will be the full text of the speech and official reactions. Significant uncertainty remains: only metadata and a brief synopsis from one source are available.