{"id":888080,"date":"2026-09-11T11:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888080\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:40:26","slug":"australia-news-as-it-happened-asio-says-16-terrorist-threats-disrupted-since-bondi-chatgpts-altman-open-to-slowing-ai-development-one-nation-slammed-over-hastie-attacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888080\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news as it happened: ASIO says 16 terrorist threats disrupted since Bondi; ChatGPT\u2019s Altman open to slowing AI development; One Nation slammed over Hastie attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump brushed aside warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology is becoming too hard to control and could kill all humans, saying his paramount interest is maintaining an edge over China.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by reporters Thursday upon departing Dallas if he has any concerns about AI leading to human extinction, Trump said, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t have any.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaking at the Republican convention this week.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789126826_894_c24d4e5ddb9f8dca85b6ccb433435ee609528be9.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>President Donald Trump speaking at the Republican convention this week.AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have concerns that if we don\u2019t win AI, we\u2019re going to be put in a very bad position,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are leading China right now by a pretty good period. I would say a year, which is, you know, considered a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AI safety concerns were thrust into the centre of the national conversation this week when a researcher resigned from Anthropic PBC and called on others to rethink their work, saying that the company and its main rival OpenAI are acting irresponsibly with technology that poses an existential threat to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump brushed aside warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology is becoming too hard to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-888080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}