thatmf
4 hours ago
The US president wrote on social media: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!”
JohnFen
12 minutes ago
Even if we had a STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT (as opposed to the one we have right now), that statement doesn't work.
If the only thing keeping industries in check is the president, then that ends the second that the president is no longer in office. It's one of the two fundamental problems with the idea of the "benevolent dictator" -- that's an unstable situation that ends as soon as the dictator is gone.
(The other problem is that a benevolent dictator is still a dictator, no matter how benevolent, and so is in complete opposition to the notions of freedom and liberty.)