After the warnings issued in recent days by several figures in the technology industry, artificial intelligence (AI) is also required in political discussions in the United States. Former President Barack Obama calls on the Democrats to give priority to the safety and supervision of this technology. It believes that the speed with which AI systems evolve may exceed the capacity of society to anticipate the consequences and supports the idea of measures to better control this progress.
Former Vice-President Kamala Harris also defends a stricter framework for the most advanced systems. In particular, it advocates safeguards to prevent their drifts and to better assess their effects. This position comes at a time when Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and several other officials in the sector are calling for a strengthening of safety features around the most powerful models.
These opinions thus give a new dimension to the concerns expressed recently in Silicon Valley. The subject is now going beyond industry circles to gain American political ground. A course that runs counter to Donald Trump's, opposed to any slowdown that he believes could lead the United States to lose its lead over China in this technological race.
