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President Donald Trump\u2019s attempts to rebrand AI as \u201csuper intelligence<\/a>\u201d landed with a thud among Democrats on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. It\u2019s a sign that the president might not have carte blanche authority on AI should they take back the majority next year. <\/p>\n

The president is attempting to rebrand artificial intelligence<\/a> under a new name as he has called the alarmism about the dangers<\/a> around AI a \u201choax.\u201d Trump has also said<\/a> \u201cthe only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades.\u201d <\/p>\n

But Democrats brushed off attempts by the president to write off the concerns Americans have around AI. <\/p>\n

Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona and a number of Democrats are talking about putting in place guardrails as many in the AI industry have begun to blow the whistle about the need to rein in the industry. Earlier this month, Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher, announced he had resigned from Anthropic<\/a>, saying \u201cThe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.\u201d <\/p>\n

Republicans in the House and Senate writ large, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), have dismissed fears about AI and Washington\u2019s capacity for oversight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump has tried to rebrand AI despite American concerns about it. (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cF***ing stupid,\u201d Gallego told The Independent. \u201cNext question.\u201d <\/p>\n

But the deference Trump receives around AI might change should Democrats win back control of both chambers of Congress. Polling shows Trump\u2019s approval rating nosediving and Democrats have to flip only four Senate seats to win back control of the upper chamber. <\/p>\n

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, told The Independent that there would be investigations around AI should his party win back control of the Senate. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is just flailing trying to find wins for the election, so put me down as dubious to what he\u2019s talking about,\u201d Wyden said about Trump. <\/p>\n

Democrats have been drawing up legislation on AI or releasing reports on the subject since at least 2024, when a bipartisan group of senators led by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York put out a report on the subject. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took part in a summit about AI last week with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in response to concerns about the subject. <\/p>\n

\"Sen.Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., called Trump\u2019s attempts to rebrand AI \u2018f***ing stupid\u201d (AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t spend a lot of time trying to understand President Trump,\u201d Sanders told The Independent. \u201cI think he is mentally unbalanced. I think he has not a clue about the problems associated with uncontrolled AI.\u201d <\/p>\n

There is potential for collaboration going into the next Congress. Reps. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) and Jim Obernolte (R-Calif.) have legislation that would create a tiered system of regulation for AI and require independent audits of AI firms. <\/p>\n

And polling shows the president out of step with many voters. A Politico survey released last week showed even 61 percent of people who voted for Trump think there is a moderate or significant risk with AI<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump puts the safety and security of our nation and our families at risk,\u201d Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told The Independent. On Wednesday, she and Schumer held a press conference urging Trump to keep AI tools out of China\u2019s hands ahead of the president\u2019s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

But even some Republicans rolled their eyes at the president\u2019s words. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can call it different names, it still is going to present great opportunity and great challenges and potential threats,\u201d Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told The Independent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,626,257515,257513,119860,77765,86,56,54,55,257514],"class_list":["post-781592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-canada","tag-canada-usa","tag-cppixottawa","tag-embassy","tag-ottawa","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-senator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}