Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken on AI, Iran and Russia | Balance of Power

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Insight & analysis on the White House and Capitol Hill. Watch Joe and Kailey LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF (http://bit.ly/3vTiACF). President Donald Trump’s opposition to guardrails on artificial intelligence puts him at odds with a growing number of lawmakers from both parties, with AI safety fears adding to voters’ misgivings about the technology heading into the midterm elections. In a rapid-fire series of social media posts, Trump on Monday belittled a push led by Anthropic PBC and OpenAI to slow work on cutting-edge systems, invoking bombastic language to dismiss existential fears about AI as “a hoax.” Later in the day, he made an impromptu call to Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, who was onstage at a technology conference and put their conversation on speakerphone. “The robots will not be taking over. AI will not be taking over the rest of the world,” Trump told Huang, who was a featured guest at the All-In summit in Los Angeles. “We have to

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