Power Players: Can AI really regulate itself?
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Power Players: Can AI really regulate itself?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 30, 202622 min

The AI race is speeding up: and so are the warnings about where it could lead. After President Trump met AI leaders to discuss how to make the technology safer without slowing America's progress, Michelle, Will and Rahul ask: can the AI industry really regulate itself? Producer: Rebecca Smyllie You can email the team: [email protected] (Photo: US President Donald Trump speaks with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the White House driveway following a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room, in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. Credit: REUTERS/Kevin...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. episodes twice a week. Find the Haunted Library wherever you get your podcasts. Goose has been President Trump's mantra when asked about more regulation for AI, even when some of those developing the tech have been warning again this week that their models

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potentially pose an existential threat to humanity. Over lunch at the White House on Tuesday, some of the biggest players in AI endorsed what the President called tremendous self-regulation. So today on Power Players from Business Daily, can AI really regulate itself?

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Yeah welcome back to the program and our first full house for a few weeks, Will Bain here in the studio. And I'm Michelle Fleury back in New York. And I'm Rahul Tandon with Will in the very small, we need a bigger house Simon, can you

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