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The US$$ 500 billion Stargate AI system project, which was announced by US President Donald Trump, has sparked media coverage and stoked industry, deflecting attention from the less attractive details of TSMC’s initial chip factory’s opening, and suffocate the more contentious debate over the future of America’s high-tech restoration.
On January 21, the day after his inauguration, Donald Trump made an appearance with Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Softbank’s Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman to make an announcement that artificial intelligence will be the “largest AI system job by much in story… creating over 100, 000 National work about immediately,” as Trump put it. Given some of the responses it has generated, the film went “viral” – a suitable information.
In Abilene, Texas, 10 properties measuring half a million square foot are currently under construction, with additional 10 more on the drawing board, and additional ones will be constructed at locations that are being evaluated nationwide. These data locations may be full of machines equipped with Nvidia’s fresh Blackwell AI chips, which are made by Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s top silicon manufacturer.
” I’m gonna support, a bit, through emergency pronouncements”, said Trump, “because we have an emergency, we have to get this thing built”.
” They have to make a lot of power, and we’ll make it possible for them to get that generation done pretty easily”, he added, “at their personal crops if they want”.
In other words, Trump intends to supersede power regulations that may put off the project, leading to a significant increase in power generation capacity driven by the purchase intentions of a select few big high-tech companies.
Oracle’s Ellison said,” Thank you, Mr President. We certainly couldn’t do this without you”. Altman and Son shared the sentiment. And they probably couldn’t, at least not as quickly and efficiently.
If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris had been attempting the project in the White House, it would likely have been hampered by attempts at social engineering and unionization of the workforce. For the same reason, Stargate is based in Texas, not California.
Masayoshi Son said,” We wouldn’t have decided, unless you won. Yesterday, we agreed. We signed. To achieve this, we would immediately begin deploying 100 billion dollars with the intention of making 500 billion dollars within the next four years, within your mandate.
As explained by OpenAI, the initial equity investments in Stargate will come from SoftBank, Oracle, OpenAI and MGX, the technology fund based in Abu Dhabi. The lead partners are SoftBank and OpenAI, with OpenAI acting as the company’s operational manager and SoftBank as its financial advisor. Softbank’s Son will be the project’s chairman.
Nvidia, Arm ( the British semiconductor design company owned primarily by Softbank ), Microsoft, Oracle and OpenAI are the project’s technology partners. Oracle, Nvidia and OpenAI will build and operate the computing system.
OpenAI has long-standing relationships with both Nvidia and Microsoft. In Japan, Softbank and Nvidia have partnered to set up a nationwide AI grid.
Following Trump to the podium, Ellison, Son and Altman talked about healthcare-related applications from AI-enabled cross-referencing of health records and procedures to cancer detection and treatment, including the development of mRNA cancer vaccines.
But there are other possibilities, including factory automation and national defense. The name Stargate, of course, is reminiscent of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite company.
The stock market approves of the concept. Oracle’s share price was up 7.2 % on Tuesday and another 4.6 % in after-hours trading. The share price of Softbank Group increased by more than 10 % on Wednesday and by another 5 % on Thursday in Japan ( across the International Date Line ). The share prices of Nvidia, TSMC, Microsoft and server maker Super Micro also rose.
Stargate is pitched as a made-in-America-for-America project, but the Nvidia AI processors at the core of the data centers will be made by Taiwan’s TSMC, at first entirely in Taiwan, then partly in the US.
At its new factory in Arizona, where TSMC is most likely to manufacture integrated circuits, on January 10, TSMC began producing integrated circuits for Apple. AMD and Nvidia are likely to be its new customers. For the first time in our country’s history, our country’s leaders are producing cutting-edge four-nanometer chips on American soil, making American workers on par with Taiwan in terms of yield and quality, according to incoming commerce chief Gina Raimondo.
TSMC Chairman and CEO C C Wei, speaking to investors on the company’s 2024 earnings call on January 16, confirmed this:
” We were able to pull ahead the production schedule of our first fab in Arizona, building on the successful result of our earlier engineering wafer production. Our first fab, using N4 process technology and yield comparable to those of our fabs in Taiwan, has already entered high-volume production in 4Q ’24. We anticipate a smooth beginning of the manufacturing process because we are confident that our factories in Arizona and Taiwan will offer the same level of manufacturing quality and dependability.
Wei added that “our plans for the second fab and third fab in Arizona are also on track.” Based on the needs of our customers, these fabs will use even more advanced technologies like our N3, N2, and A16.
In plain English, this means that TSMC will be making 4nm chips in Arizona starting this year and progress to 3nm, 2nm and 1.6nm ( 16-angstrom ), probably by the end of the decade. In terms of 3nm production, TSMC is already ahead of Samsung and Intel, who are both likely to be 1 nm and smaller. TSMC currently makes Nvidia’s Blackwell AI processors using its 4nm process.
All of these process technologies were and are being developed and produced in Taiwan, close to the company’s R&, D, and where the procedure is well-established and the capacity is much larger. This suggests that regardless of any agreement Trump has with China, he won’t want to disrupt Stargate’s main production.
A retired Silicon Valley executive and advisor to the US government on the subject of high-tech competitiveness said,” The game with the current administration is zero-sum,” in response to the three executives ‘ praise for Trump.
And that it is given that Trump has already replaced and exceeded$ 500 billion in government funding after cutting more than$ 300 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act and Department of Energy loan programs under his administration, which were then replaced by$ 300 billion from the private sector.
A West Coast venture capitalist who is not a fan of Trump wrote in an email that” It’s all part of the mad scramble for more computing power and energy to fuel it… Remember Trump’s first term. He enjoys planning big announcements, which credit him with making investments that were already planned or that never occur. Everyone tries to ingratiate themselves with Dear Leader, but it’s all part of that. Because that’s what you have to do in an autocratic state” . ,
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, wrote on X,” They don’t actually have the money. SoftBank has well under$ 10 billion secured. I have that on good authority”. However, if there is one thing Son excels at, it’s raising money. In 2017, Softbank launched the Vision Fund, a technology-focused venture capital fund with more than$ 100 billion in capital – the world’s largest such fund at the time.
For Musk, whose xAI competes with OpenAI and has taken it to court, Stargate is a powerful new competitor. And perhaps worse than that, Ellison, Son and Altman – high-tech moguls like himself – now also have Trump’s ear.
If the build-out of Stargate’s data centers proceeds according to plan, Microsoft, Google and Amazon are likely to lose their first-mover advantage and oligopolistic profit margins in AI-related cloud computing. Oracle, which offers cloud computing services in 25 countries around the world, has a significant opportunity in this regard.
Another critic, physician and biochemist Robert Malone, has published an essay entitled” AI, mRNA, Cancer Vaccines and” Stargate”: Reality check. Curb your enthusiasm, and beware of grifters”.
He writes:” I can’t believe that we are being spoon-fed this hype from the likes of Oracle’s Larry Ellison… Having this guy lecture us on mRNA vaccines for cancer is over the top.  , This is so amazingly ( and dangerously ) naive that I can hardly believe I am hearing it”.
Maybe so, but Ellison, Son and Altman were delivering a pitch for AI infrastructure, not explaining the technology roadmaps of companies that will use their data centers. They may be overly optimistic, but they are genuinely interested in healthcare and think AI can contribute significantly to the analysis of sizable amounts of medical-related data.
Malone also criticizes “banking some brand-new” cancer moonshot” television programs named after science fiction TV shows.” So, is Stargate a wise use of money or a reckless boondoggle? In reality,$ 500 billion is nearly ten times the$ 52.7 billion in grants and loans provided by the CHIPS Act. Only time will tell.
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But we didn’t deny that there might be serious problems. Historically, we are very different. We have to deal- who pays for what, how do we determine on tax cuts and opportunities. What do you consider to be the issues?
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Let me set this in perspective: 140 of the world’s nations have special economic zones, but the majority of them don’t really fulfill their original requirements. Special economic zones typically cause problems for most places because they typically have one or two or three things wrong before an economic area can succeed. The path to success is very, very small with exclusive economic areas.  ,  ,
You need to have landscape, you need to have plan, and you need to have a business scenario. As Serina has mentioned, there is a business situation right now.  ,  ,
EnterpriseSG is working with partners in established markets to help them gain access to customers, investors, and experience to assist companies in emerging industries like accuracy medicine.
Advancements in technology will enable businesses to create products that are more efficient at providing care to nations all over the world, particularly given the age demographics, according to EnterpriseSG managing director Cindy Khoo.
She told CNA’s Singapore Tonight on Thursday that” that presents business opportunities for businesses in Singapore that can provide those services for more specific tests or pharmaceuticals service.”  ,
She stated that SMEs in this field may have the skills and options, but have not yet scaled.
To connect our local businesses with outside partners like Mayo Clinic ( in the US and ) Charité in Germany, which are well-established care institutions,” we need proof of concept, captain, and… to show a monitor record,” she said.
Ms. Khoo asserted that there might be a bright side to the international business environment, even though it may hang in the balance.
” The great confusion really opens up opportunities thanks to the enormous adjustment of global supply chains,” she said.
” That’s where we can look for opportunities, where our businesses can undermine even existing manufacturers, and then provide our services and goods to the rest of the world more properly”.
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At all ranges of implementation, the US is in constant flux with global competition for significant security technologies. The US Department of Defense will implement new initiatives to increase the competitive range and level of British defence techniques.
The success of these initiatives will be evaluated by the rapid, better development that can outsmart the competition. In this regard, advanced manufacturing processes that create technology systems are of special value.
The issue is frequently delivering exceptional techniques within budget, but there is rarely a shortage of innovative ideas. Working within the restrictive technological and financial constraints of these programs calls for the skilled blending of numerous resources.
And the end result may be powerful systems that can be used in a variety of settings.
It has, of course, been done earlier. The remarkably successful NASA Apollo program, for instance, which brought the first people to the moon, is a perfect example. In response to the Soviet Union’s pioneering satellite systems, President John Kennedy launched the system.
Success came from a sizable pool of skills. And there were no buttons. Numerous cooperative programs forged a bridge between innovative research and pioneering professional development and production, which helped lead to the success of Apollo.
These well-executed cooperative programs enabled the transfer of novel ideas from facilities to practical use. These were not only ordinary goods; they had to conform to the strictest consistency requirements for spacecraft carrying astronauts.
The program’s extraordinary accomplishment was the rapid transition from ideas to space-qualified products that couldn’t fail without causing life to be lost.
I was involved in the creation and development of the solid-state microwave that served as the radio for the pilots ‘ landing on the moon to talk to the spacecraft that was orbiting the moon, and where they had to return and port once they reached the planet’s surface.
The system in the radio may not fail, and to maintain its reliability, fresh test and manufacturing techniques were developed. The sky landing vision was a flawless success for the micro television. It was all fresh, and individuals rose to the challenge.
This type of work was carried out frequently by many members. In this instance, the initial development was at a RCA , labs where I worked, but the conversation game’s prime contractor did the full stereo design and production.
You never know where new thoughts will come from, so the purpose of this account is to emphasize the importance of including undiscovered entrepreneurs in engineering programs.
What made this example stand out as extraordinary is that my invention was the result of a conversation I had by chance with a NASA engineer to find out whether I needed a new device to remove a flawed one.
In a short period of time, NASA became aware that a trustworthy radio could be constructed, and revenue for my project almost arrived immediately. The soft transfer to a top-notch radio product manufacturer was what eventually made the new radio possible. This near connection is important.
What resources are available right now that will enable massive new defence projects? The most accomplished citizens work together, second, to put it another way. DARPA ( Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ), which is funded by the Department of Defense, provides funding for technological studies in important areas.
The initiatives supported by DARPA have had amazing effects when supported by various organizations, including the success of artificial intelligence and the Internet.
The DARPA programs ‘ results are simply system enablers for military projects, which companies with the assets can use to fund weapons and systems production follow.
Now, there is a major concern. The number of top US defence companies has decreased from 51 to just five since the early 1990s. This means fewer assets involved in security plans, fewer entrepreneurs and less opposition.
Additionally, there are fewer business labs working for the DOD. The big corporate lab, like those of AT&, T, RCA and Xerox, have disappeared. Companies that once had a high level of entrepreneurs with significant innovative contributions have seen a drastic decline in number.
This issue is likely to prevent the development of significant new initiatives that require the highest level of technology. The answer is that more businesses may participate in the DoD purchasing method, while organizations like DARPA must continue to work together. And the best US skill may join.
I anticipate that new initiatives may require new businesses that value the development of high-performance technology under DoD contracts and the fact that such initiatives’ spin-offs will have significant effects on the sales of goods. This has been demonstrated over time, and it is likely to continue.
Henry Kressel is a technician, engineer, publisher and entrepreneur. He was in charge of directing the development of numerous significant, novel electronic equipment. He was the director of RCA Laboratories ‘ electronic research division and has long held private equity investments in technology businesses.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Colombian President Dina Boluarte met to actually inaugurate a new US$ 3.6 billion deepwater mega-port in Peru, called Chancay, on their way to the G20 conference in Rio de Janeiro in November.
China’s state-owned Cosco shipping giant had purchased a 60 % stake in the port for$ 1.6 billion, which gave the company exclusive use of the port for 60 years. Weeks later, the first fleet departed for Shanghai loaded with strawberries, bananas and materials.
China’s plan for a maritime Silk Road in the 21st century that may better join its manufacturing hubs with its global trading partners includes Chancay. The West is concerned about China’s growing influence over global transport routes because of the high investments in ships in many nations.
Donald Trump, the just re-elected US president, made clear these issues when he claimed that China was “operating” the Panama Canal and that the US intended to retake it. China does not run the river, nevertheless. Instead, a Hong Kong organization runs two ships on either side.
The maritime Silk Road has a remarkable scope and scale. China has invested in 129 ships in lots of countries through its state-owned companies, mostly in the Global South. Seventeen of these ships have majority-Chinese rights.
According to one estimate, Taiwanese firms invested$ 11 billion in international port advancement from 2010–19. Leading Chinese companies today own direct stakes in stations where more than 27 % of the world’s container industry is currently conducted.
China has entered Latin America violently, becoming the country’s leading trading partner. Its interface approach has evidently signaled a long-term aim to get the exports important to its food and energy security: soybeans, corn, beef, iron ore, copper and battery-grade lithium.
Last season, for instance, Portos do Paraná, the Portuguese state-owned organization that functions as the port authority in the state of Paraná, signed a letter of intent with China Merchants Port Holdings to develop Paranaguá Container Terminal, the second-largest switch in South America. Due to the 22 stations scheduled to be auctioned before the close of 2025, China may participate in even more Portuguese ships.
In Africa, Chinese purchase grew from two ships in 2000 to 61 infrastructure in 30 countries by 2022. Additionally, the Belt and Road Initiative in Europe is led by Chinese companies that own two significant ports in Belgium and Greece, which are the so-called “dragon’s brain” of the program.
Xi’s goal of having a global economic hegemony is largely driven by its rise as a sea and delivery power.
For one, China requires steady access to important trading routes in order to continue meeting both the exports Beijing needs to keep its market strong and the need for Chinese exports abroad.
China can establish economic zones in other nations that grant terminal owners and operators unrestricted access to goods and products by controlling ports as well. Some feared that this might cause China to stifle the supply of some goods or even have an impact on the political or economic policies of various nations.
The metal and minerals needed to power China’s rise as a technology superpower are another important component of this technique. Beijing has focused its interface investments in those areas with the most important resources.
For example, China is the world’s largest supplier of copper ore, primarily from Chile, Peru and Mexico. It is also one of the country’s major lithium hydroxide manufacturers, primarily from Chile and Argentina. Additionally, its terminal agreements in Africa give it access to unique rocks and other nutrients.
Latin America’s expansion also helps to resolve China’s recent industry disputes with Europe. Additionally, it eliminates worries about potential US taxes Trump might impose on Chinese products.
Washington is concerned about these actions because it makes sense that China is challenging US effect in its own neighborhood.
China maintains that its port geopolitics is market-oriented. However, it has established a naval base in Djibouti, a country in Africa that is carefully placed. Additionally, it is alleged that Equatorial Guinea is developing a new naval foundation.
According to a recent review by the Asia Society Policy Institute, plan experts believe China is seeking to “weaponize” the Belt and Road Initiative. One way it does this is by requiring that the business ships it invests in be able to serve as naval foundations as well.
14 of the 17 ports where it holds a majority of the stakes have the potential to be used for marine purposes so much. These ports may then fulfill a dual purpose: they support the Taiwanese military’s logistic network and help Chinese naval vessels to travel farther away from home.
US officials worry that China might use its influence on private companies to stifle business during a time of conflict.
While China’s assets are raising concerns, the West’s determination to invest in ships at this level is limited. The US International Development Finance Corporation, for example, has a little slower, comprehensive approach for its investments, which usually leads to better outcomes for both investors and host nations.
However, some Western companies are acquiring stakes in established and newly built ports in other countries, albeit not to the extent of Chinese enterprises.
The French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM’s global port development strategy, for example, includes investments in 60 terminals worldwide. In 2024, it acquired control over South America’s largest container terminal in the Port of Santos, Brazil.
Trump has threatened to impose tariffs as a means of limiting China’s position on the world stage. A member of his transition team’s advisor has suggested a 60 % tariff on any product passing through Peru’s Chancay port or any other Chinese-owned or controlled port in South America.
Rather than making nations reluctant to sign port deals with Beijing, however, this kind of action just erodes Washington’s regional influence. Additionally, China is likely to take retaliatory measures, such as outlawing the US’s export of crucial minerals.
Host nations like Peru and Brazil, meanwhile, are using the competition for port investment to their advantage. They are increasingly asserting their autonomy and adopting a strategy of using ports to “play everywhere” on the global stage, drawing attention from both the West and China.
Claudio Bozzi is lecturer in law, Deakin University
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Private credit specialist Muzinich & Co. has appointed of Pam Hsieh as director – marketing & client relations.
Hsieh (pictured), based in Singapore, will focus on developing the firm’s relationships with financial intermediaries and wealth managers across Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, according to a January 6 media release.
In her new role, Hsieh will report to Sashi Nambiar, head of financial intermediaries and wealth, Asia. She has over a decade of experience in asset management and wealth management, having held senior positions at Fidelity and BlackRock in Taiwan, most recently as vice president, wealth at BlackRock.
Nambiar said in the media release: “We welcome Pam to Muzinich at a time of growing interest in both public and private credit solutions among Asian investors. Her deep understanding of the wealth market and strong track record of building relationships with financial intermediaries will be invaluable as we continue to expand our presence in the region.”
Andrew Tan, chief executive officer, Asia Pacific (Apac), Muzinich & Co., added: “Pam’s appointment demonstrates our commitment to building a strong presence across both institutional and wealth management segments in Apac.”
Tan continued: “As Asian investors increasingly seek to diversify their portfolios through credit solutions, we are strategically expanding our team to better serve their evolving needs while maintaining our focus on delivering excellence in credit investing.”
The appointment follows a partnership with First Bank to bring its “parallel” lending strategy, MLoan, to the Taiwanese market.
And In September, Muzinich announced a partnership with Hong Kong’s Orion3 to launch an up to $1 billion infrastructure and real assets private debt strategy targeting several key markets in Apac.
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AFPChinese TV host Masahiro Nakai, one of the country’s most recognized eyes on television, has announced that he is retiring after a sexual assault incident that has rocked the government’s entertainment business.
Nakai, who presented for Fuji Television, was accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a 2023 dinner group held by employees.
Lots of companies have pulled their promotions from Fuji Television amid promises that the agency’s personnel had tried to cover up the incident.
Nakai has denied using violence against the girl, and said on 9 January that he had “resolved” the problem with her through a lawsuit. But this did much to suppress public indignation.
In a social media statement posted on Thursday, Nakai said that he was” really sorry for causing problems and loss to so many people”.
” I’m really, really sad for saying good-bye this way. “
His departure comes days after Fuji Television leader Koichi Minato confirmed that the organization did not disclose Nakai’s incident despite being aware of it long before it was reported in the media.
Vehicle manufacturers Nissan and Toyota, as well as financial firm Seven & I assets which runs the financial 7-eleven comfort keep network, were among those that announced they were pulling advertisements from Fuji Television over the incident.
Fuji Television is expected to set up an independent commission to investigate the incident.
Appearances of Nakai have also been scrubbed from schemes.
Nakai soared to fame in the 1990s as the leader of Chinese child group SMAP, one of Asia’s most productive works. The team released more than 50 singles- many of which became table toppers- and launched a regular selection show on prime-time television.
Getty ImagesAfter SMAP disbanded in 2016, Nakai went on to become a television network as well as one of the wealthiest stars in Japan.
Japan’s pleasure industry is facing a reckoning with much unspoken instances of sexual abuse.
In 2023, J-pop professional Johnny Kitagawa, who by then had been deceased for four years, was exposed to had sexually abused plenty of boys and young men for years.
His talent company, Johnny & Associates, had managed SMAP among other boy bands.
In one of his first moves as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump announced a new US$ 500 billion project called Stargate to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in the US.
The job is a collaboration between three big tech companies – OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle. Trump called it “the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history” and said it would help keep “the future of technology ” in the US.
Tech businessman Elon Musk, however, had a different take, claiming without evidence on his system X that the project’s donors “don’t really have the money. ” X, which is not included in Stargate, is even working on developing AI and Musk is a foe to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Alongside announcing Stargate, Trump even revoked an executive order signed by his father Joe Biden that was aimed at addressing and controlling AI challenges.
Seen together, these two techniques embody a culture prevalent in software development that can best be summed up by the word: “move fast and break things. ”
The US is now the world’s pioneer when it comes to AI advancement. The Stargate task will considerably extend this guide over different nations.
It will see a system of data centres built across the US. These centres will building massive computer machines required for running AI applications such as ChatGPT. These machines will operate 24/7 and may require significant amounts of electricity and water to work.
According to a speech by OpenAI, construction of new data locations as part of Stargate is currently underway in the US state of Texas:
[ W]e are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalise definitive agreements.
The increased funding into AI growth by Trump is encouraging. It may help improve the many possible benefits of AI. For instance, AI may increase cancer patients ’ prognosis by quickly analyzing clinical information and detecting early signs of illness.
But Trump’s continuous renewal of Biden’s professional get on the “safe, safe and reliable development and use of AI” is deeply concerning. It could mean that any potential gains of Stargate are immediately trumped by its potential to exacerbate the existing affects of AI systems.
Yes, Biden’s get lacked critical technical details. But it was a tempting start towards developing safer and more responsible AI techniques. One big problem it was meant to address was tech firms collecting personal information for AI education without second obtaining acceptance.
AI techniques collect information from all over the internet. Even if data are readily available on the internet for individual use, it does not imply AI systems may use them for training. Moreover, when a picture or word is fed into an AI unit, it cannot be removed. There have been many instances of artists suing Artificial craft generators for the unauthorised use of their labor.
Another problem Biden’s get aimed to address was the risk of harm – especially to people from minority areas.
Most Artificial devices aim to increase accuracy for the majority. Without proper pattern, they can make really dangerous choices for a few.
For instance, in 2015, an image-recognition algorithm developed by Google immediately tagged pics of black individuals as “gorillas. ” This equal concern was later found in AI techniques of other organizations such as Yahoo and Apple, and remains unanswered a century later because these methods are so often incomprehensible actually to their creators.
This opacity makes it crucial to design AI systems correctly from the start. Problems can be deeply embedded in the AI system itself, worsening over time and becoming nearly impossible to fix.
As AI tools increasingly make important decisions, such as résumé screening, minorities are being even more disproportionately affected. For example, AI-powered face recognition software more commonly misidentifies black people and other people of color, which has led to false arrests and imprisonment.
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Trump’s twin AI announcements in the first days of his second term as US president show his main focus in terms of AI – and that of the biggest tech companies in the world – is on developing ever faster, more powerful AI systems.
If we compare an AI system with a car, this is like developing the fastest car possible while ignoring crucial safety features like seat belts or airbags in order to keep it lighter and thus faster.
For both cars and AI, this approach could mean putting very dangerous machines into the hands of billions of people around the world.
Armin Chitizadeh is lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney
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