With their flagship morning reveals on Wednesday, ABC and CBS continued the liberal, elitist media-wide marketing campaign to take as licensed, unavoidable reality the claims from sure corners of the substitute intelligence (AI) sector that AI won’t solely take over the planet, however “poses a menace to humanity” that’ll go away billions of individuals lifeless.
That mindset was evident as ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings melted down over Tuesday’s White Home AI summit, which concluded with out an announcement of sweeping, iron-fisted authorities laws to imagine management of the trade.
ABC was, as ordinary, probably the most hyperbolic. Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos screeched that Trump “downplay[ed] the dangers of AI, saying at a lunch with tech executives that the businesses can police themselves regardless of warnings that AI poses a menace to humanity.”
Senior political correspondent and virulent Trump hater Rachel Scott relayed that the President “insists that there’s no want for the federal authorities to step in and rein on this expertise, as an alternative leaving it as much as the businesses to manage themselves,” regardless that “the very tech leaders” he noticed “have sounded the alarm about AI.”
Scott doubled down on the apocalyptic eventualities: “With probably the most highly effective tech executives standing behind him, President Trump declaring AI leaders ought to police themselves after weeks of dire warnings in regards to the menace it may pose to humanity.”
She scoffed on the signed joint settlement, whining “[t]right here can be no federal guardrails on AI,” and that Tuesday’s lunch as an alternative resulted in “a voluntary joint settlement.”
Moments later, she contrasted Trump with the aspect she herself finds cheap versus Trump, who has “dismissed these issues, rejecting calls to manage AI as a globalist scheme”:
She concluded by displaying herself founding Trump and pointing to a Quinnipiac College ballot backing up her argument the federal government must, in essence, assume management of the trade (click on “broaden”):
SCOTT: [TO TRUMP] The leaders standing behind you will have had some very severe issues about AI. Even after assembly with them right this moment, you’re nonetheless calling this a hoax, so why ought to the American folks take your phrase over this?
TRUMP: It’s not a hoax. It’s a really severe. That’s why I modified the identify.
SCOTT: Okay.
TRUMP: A hoax feels like, you understand, whenever you’re utilizing the previous identify, however this identify is now superintelligent. That’s not a hoax.
SCOTT: I attempted asking Amodei what he needs the President to do. [TO AMODEI] You’ve had some severe warnings about AI. [BACK TO VOICE-OVER] However he walked away and didn’t reply. So once more, this settlement is voluntary. It’s legally non-binding. It additionally comes as a brand new ballot from Quinnipiac College reveals that 79 % of voters would reasonably have security on the subject of AI as an alternative of developments on this expertise.
Over at CBS Mornings, they confirmed that, but once more, it’s not the MAGA TV that the media reporting class has insisted.
Co-host Nate Burleson panned the summit: “A White Home assembly on the potential risks of AI left many individuals questioning simply how a lot was achieved. The tech CEOs who met with President Trump did agree on a request to police themselves, however critics say a lot stronger guardrails are wanted.”
Senior White Home and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe stated the “extraordinary” and “unprecedented gathering” featured “titans of the world’s fastest-growing and probably most harmful trade” who signed onto “a brand new set of voluntary security requirements.”
“However Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who raised the loudest issues in regards to the risks of AI and needs extra authorities intervention, expressed warning…The President and Speaker dismissed extra authorities regulation of the AI trade, however Democrats are pushing for extra motion to make sure security,” he later added.
In contrast to ABC, CBS and O’Keefe introduced up Trump’s feedback about constructing information facilities:
The President additionally stated he mentioned the development of knowledge facilities with the AI leaders, saying he nonetheless needs them constructed within the U.S., however away from properties. He recommended constructing them may present extra financial incentives in communities the place they’re being constructed, resembling dividends to residents or bonuses for native schoolteachers.
Over on NBC’s At the moment, co-host Craig Melvin stated “the rising debate and concern surrounding AI” led to “that historic White Home summit between President Trump and a number of the nation’s main tech titans.”
Senior White Home correspondent Gabe Gutierrez emphasised proper off the bat that “there are rising questions on how binding [the] settlement actually is” between Trump and “a few of these highly effective enterprise leaders on the planet, main firms value trillions of {dollars}.”
“This morning, after a rare assembly on the White Home, the U.S.’s greatest tech giants are actually making an attempt to go current a united entrance, regardless of sharp disagreements over whether or not AI wants extra guardrails…President Trump rejecting requires extra authorities regulation, as an alternative releasing a signed doc,” he stated.
Gutierrez was the lone community correspondent to say on Wednesday morning Trump’s strikes to “rebrand AI as SI, superintelligence” in addition to the discharge of “the brand new AI-powered America.gov, which the White Home describes is a one-stop store for federal companies like renewing passports.”
Additional, Gutierrez introduced stability when speaking in regards to the cut up inside Massive Tech in regards to the positives and negatives of AI (click on “broaden”):
GUTIERREZ: The President rising from the lunch with Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg —
ZUCKERBERG: What we are able to all agree on is that the American public and our clients need to know that what we’re constructing is working in a manner in a we intend.
GUTIERREZ: — and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who has been warning about potential risks.
DARIO AMODEI: I believe the expertise has actually actual dangers, and the mechanism, how we tackle these dangers continues to be underneath dialogue.
GUTIERREZ: Amongst these dangers, OpenAI scrapping the discharge of its new mannequin over safety issues and beforehand rogue AI brokers hacking into authorities web sites. Nonetheless, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues new laws should not wanted.
HUANG: There isn’t any battle between innovation, expertise and security.
GUTIERREZ: However different tech leaders are pushing for the federal government to do extra.
BILL GATES [on The New York Times’s The Ezra Klein Show]: That is probably the most harmful factor that people have ever gone close to. In different areas, will we simply say, hey, launch your medication, there’s no FDA. There’s no airline security board. There’s no necessities that automobiles use seat belts.
GUTIERREZ: The President additionally downplaying issues about AI information facilities, saying he’d reasonably they be constructed within the U.S. as an alternative of China.
TRUMP: The information facilities are unbelievable — and, by the way in which, I’m excellent at actual property. A few of these buildings are completely lovely.
To see the related transcripts from September 30, click on right here (for ABC), right here (for CBS), and right here (for NBC).
