Trump claims major AI boss was threatened with jail and it made them change everything
President Donald Trump has made a series of shocking claims during a recent interview, including a revelation about a major AI boss who was allegedly threatened with jail time.
The US leader sat down with Ross Douthat for a recent episode of 60 Minutes where he talked about the Republican losses in the midterm elections, the wars in Iran and Ukraine, and the future of AI regulation.
During the chat, Trump revealed that there is a tech boss who ‘was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI’.
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The president explained: “We called them very strongly and said ‘get ready to go to jail, please give your wife a kiss good night’.”
Trump refused to name the man in question but went on to say: “We said ‘Do you like the color orange? Go home right now, see your wife and children. Give them a kiss good night because tomorrow you’re going to jail’.”
The president said that after this threat, the person ‘totally changed everything’.
So, who is this man? Trump has not shared the identity of the individual but did confirm it was a leader of a major AI company.
Trump claims he will work with Democrats on AI safety
The president was later questioned about the safety concerns surrounding AI and Trump shared that he would work the Democrats on guardrails.
This comes after the Republicans suffered huge losses in the midterm elections last week, with the Democrats taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Congress.
Trump said: “I don’t mind guardrails, but I don’t want to put us in a deep second position. We’re leading number one, and China has no guardrails, by the way. So, if AI is dangerous, well, they have the guardrails of being a totalitarian state, right?”
Trump’s claims about UFO sightings
In the interview, the president also shared stories about apparent UFO sightings by Air Force pilots, with Trump saying that he had listened to their experiences during meetings with them.
Trump said: “They’ve told me things that are very strange. They said that in certain cases they said, ‘Yes there’s something going on out there’, because they’re flying an F-22 which is the best there is, the fastest the best plane that anyone’s ever seen, and something goes by them at three times their speed and it’s round, it’s not aerodynamic, it’s round.”
The president admitted that there is a possibility that the unidentified object could be a ‘comet’ but that it remains a ‘mystery’.
