Trump backs AI speed over extinction warnings from inside labs
Trump says he has no concern that AI could cause human extinction, putting the White House emphasis on staying ahead of China while lab insiders urge caution. The immediate fault line is recursive self-improvement, where models improve their own performance: OpenAI researcher Jasmine Wang called speeding toward it dangerous, while chief scientist Jakub Pachocki said no one is prepared for the consequences of rapidly rising machine intelligence. Bipartisan lawmakers are backing the FRONTIER Act for oversight of advanced models.