Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards

Also on Monday, Chinese state media said experts had warned that "Washington's growing anxiety over China's rapid AI development appears to be increasingly distorting its policy priorities"."They know that China has become a strong competitor in AI, and worry that if the US slows down development or tightens regulation, China could catch up even faster," Xin Qiang, a professor of American Studies at Fudan University, told the Global Times.Clark, who is one of Anthropic's seven founders, said earlier on Monday that a way of shutting off AI software completely if it gets too dangerous was something society "might want to eventually pass rules around".He added that "most labs have different ways of being able to pull the plug", including Anthropic, but said lawmakers may need to enforce having one.Clark's comments add to the growing number of tech industry and political figures calling for better safeguards.On Monday, Microsoft AI became the latest major company to discuss limiting the models it is developing, as it published an outline document on what it called "humanist AI".The firm's chief executive Mustafa Suleyman told business news channel CNBC that it had been working on the new guidance for months and had decided to publish it now due to the current debate around the technology.