From AI to Super Intelligence: Trump's new American AI Agenda
In Focus by The Hindu

From AI to Super Intelligence: Trump's new American AI Agenda

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 202639 min
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On September 29, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted the country's top technology business leaders as he embarked on a project to rename artificial intelligence (AI) as "Super Intelligence" and "SI”. There, he announced the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which was signed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, XAI CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman. The AI Accord that they signed is “morally binding”, per Mr. Trump. The Big Tech leaders, known for their liberal, centrist, or even neutral political stances, stood smiling, flanking the Presid...

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On September 29th, the CEOs and founders of some of the top American AI and tech companies, many of them known for their liberal, centrist or even neutral political stances, stood smiling and crowded around US President Donald Trump.

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This is In Focus, the Hindu's current affairs podcast. On September 29th, the CEOs and founders of some of the top American AI and tech companies, many of them known for their liberal, centrist or even neutral political stances, stood smiling and crowded around US President Donald Trump. Trump. They had just signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. These six technologists were anthropics Dario Amode, Google's Sundar Pichai, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, NVIDIA's

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Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, and XAI's Elon Musk. This was a joint commitment to undertake security audits and tests before deploying Frontier AI technology. On this episode of the In Focus podcast, we are joined by the Hindu's technology editor, John Xavier, as we discuss what really goes into a name. Hi, Sanima. Hi, John, how are you doing?

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Good, how are you? I'm good. Thank you so much. So you gave a very good intro, and it's quite true that Trump was able to bring in a lot of the tech leaders together. In some sense, it actually feels like the time when America started the whole railroad system, where you actually bring in the Robber Baron Group sort

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