Trump press conference addresses AI 'accord' signed by tech leaders Amodei, Huang, Musk & Zuckerberg transcript

He actually went the opposite. But look, it's one voice. He actually went the opposite. No, >> we're looking at this for good. It's also maybe the biggest industrial. They say bigger than the industrial revolution. Think of it. >> You know what? We're leading by a lot and we're going to keep it that someone who always talks about growth when speaking of this >> after this meeting, meeting with all these incredible minds, how much growth can we in the upcoming years with all of your >> growth like nobody's ever seen before.

And I see it with these statements. Statements came out. You open a company and if it does reasonably well, it goes a little bit like this. These companies are opening and going like a rocket ship. This is unbelievable growth for our country. And we have all of them. >> Mr. President, >> Europe Europe, in all due respect, Europe has none. They have none. They have to count on us to help. >> But we have all of them. And it's it's amazing.

Second is China. But as president, she would say, you know, they're quite a ways back and we have to keep it that way. Remember this, whoever wins SI, because now we're calling it again super. We're using the word super because the other word is a fake word. It's just not a it's not a good it's not an appropriate word. But whoever wins SI is going to win. Tell Americans concerned about what do you tell Americans sir about data commun data centers going up in their communities? >> Well, that's another thing we discussed and I think the companies will be very generous to them uh both financially and otherwise.

I think they'll help with their schools. They'll help with their teachers. They'll help with pay of the teachers and the people that are good to them. And I see that happening and I think the companies will be very generous to these communities. And if you look at most for almost in all cases the data centers have tremendously the money being brought in their taxes have gone down their incomes have gone up their value of their housing has gone up but I think that the companies and here's one of the greatest in the world has two of the greatest in the world. uh they're going to be very generous with communities and I think in a way they're going to be forming partnerships with communities when they open up data centers and they're going to benefit both financially, morally every single way they're going to be benefiting and I think that's taking place. >> What is the importance of super intelligence in the next 10 years? >> What's the biggest thing there is?

And nobody even can answer that question because it is the biggest thing there is. maybe the biggest thing there's ever been. It's much bigger than the internet. Now, that's already been proved. The internet was a big thing when it happened. This blows it away. I think Jan said, would you say something about that? >> Yes, sir. Absolutely. Well, this is this is the largest industrial revolution in history. And we're going through the single largest infrastructure buildout in human history. >> And so, it's creating a million jobs here in the United States.

We have chip plants coming up, computer plants coming up, we have factories coming up and so it's creating just enormous amount of jobs. On top of this infrastructure, several hundred billion dollars of venture capital has gone into creating new companies and all of those 10 those thousands of companies are creating lots and lots of jobs. Do you as an example as an example Nidian? >> So he's still a young guy, handsome guy.

Look at him. Very handsome guy. >> But as an example, in a fairly short period of time, he's built, I think, the most valuable, right? Like in the stock market, you know, it's very easy to value the most valuable company anywhere in the world. And it's basically new technology. It's not uh oil and gas and all the other things that you associate with also a lot of money. It's it's technology and this man has done a great job.

That man right there has done a great job. You know what he's doing too? Same thing. And Greg, do you have anything to say? >> We So we we build artificial intelligence. >> This is open AI. >> Open AI. Thank you, Mr. President. We build artificial intelligence to benefit everyone. We think it can lift everyone up. We see a whole renaissance of small businesses, scientific discoveries really starting to happen, drug development, really being able to improve everyone's lives.

And we think that these accords and and under President Trump's leadership, everyone coming together to agree on how to move forward safely, I think that's just so important because we're doing this in order to benefit people in the world. >> So, do you do you agree with the president? Do you agree with the president? Do you all agree with the president that no guard rails are necessary, that you can self-regulate and that this existential threat that you've all talked about can actually be managed? >> That's a question for you all.

Actually, I don't know who to focus. >> Well, I mean, I can tell you the answer is yes, and we discussed it with the top about 40 people, but somebody who answered it very well is Jensen. He answered it before. Jensen, go ahead. >> There's no conflict between innovation, technology, and safety. But we are going to have to create new technologies to advance the capabilities of AI, but we're also creating new technologies to advance the safety of AI.

All of this technology is being developed by the industry today. And you you see behind me just an incredible number of leaders in our industry, moving together as one, and we're going to we're going to advance this technology that is so consequential to humanity, so consequential to the future prosperity of our nation. And we're going to do it responsibly and safely. Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr.

President, are you concerned at all that your continued support of data centers could hurt Republicans in the midterms? >> I just have to do what's right. All I can tell you is that these big, powerful, very rich, very smart companies are going to be making massive contributions to communities, individual people within the community. And it's going to be really partnership. We talked about it. They're going to be forming partnerships with communities.

They're going to have they're going to take something that people don't understand and they're going to let them understand it. But they're going to form partnerships within the communities that's going to be so good for the people. >> Even as I address the midterms, you talked about that our candidates for Congress right now, the Republicans in the House, our candidates and our incumbents are out in their communities right now as we speak communicating on this.

They're saying we cannot lose the race to China. We cannot lose America's edge because it's important for every American worker, every American family for their safety, security, the future, the economy. So, but it has to be a balance. You have to take the community concerns in hand. That's what all of these folks agreed to. That's what the president articulated in the room today that you have to uh heed those concerns and you have to make commitments to them just as they're making as an industry.

They will make it to the local communities. For example, we just codified about three weeks ago in the House. we passed with almost no dissenting votes votes the rateayer protection act that is a codification of President Trump's rateayer protection pledge they're guaranteeing that when they need energy resources for these AI infrastructure super intelligence infrastructure systems that they will produce it themselves they will put power back onto the grid in most cases they're going to take care of the local communities trust is earned it's not automatic and they understand that they're earning the trust >> understand what Mike is saying that means financially as well you know in Louisiana you probably heard They're having a big trouble, big problem with teacher pay, etc., etc.

A company went in, I believe it's Meta in this case, and they're paying every teacher virtually in that either area or actually far beyond that area, >> Richland Parish >> into into the parish. They're paying every single teacher over $50,000 a piece. This is more money than they've ever seen. Mr. >> PRESIDENT, ARE YOU WORRIED about AI enforcement, Mr. President, to the FBI and the DOJ as you suggested? Isn't it too late then to prevent any damage? >> We're going to have it very well assessed.

And we also remember this. We have the smartest people in the world watching over each other. And we've done that. You had the smartest people. Look, I guess you could say different industries, but these are seriously high IQ people. You know, we used to deal with a lot of low IQ. These are seriously high IQ people and they're really watching over each other. Mr. President on the com you mentioned that you have all found some common ground but the leaders standing behind you have had some very serious concerns about AI even after meeting with them today you still calling this a hoax so why should the American people >> call a hoax it's a very serious that's why I changed the name okay >> a hoax sounds like you know when you're using the former name but this name is now super intelligent that's not a hoax in fact it's the exact opposite what I am calling a hoax is what the democrats do because they don't want to see it be successful because they think that's bad for Republicans.

Okay? So, they don't want to see this tremendous surge of growth. We have growth and and by the way, we have a lot of car factories opening. We have all the medical companies, all the pharmaceutical companies. Uh Fizer just announced, Merc just announced, they're all announcing, everyone, they're all building master plans, not just the the SI. But what has happened and what's taking place right now is we have a level of growth that no country has ever seen before.

We're going to have jobs like nobody's ever seen before. And you know, the numbers just came out. We have now the best poverty numbers, meaning the lowest number in terms of poverty. The best poverty numbers we've ever had. We have the best individual income numbers in the history of our country. We have the best crime numbers. We have the best crime numbers in the history of our country. And that's despite allowing 25 million people into our country through an open border of the Biden policy that could have destroyed the country.

And we got the murderers out. Large numbers. We're getting the rest of them out. We've done a great job. >> Just know we have >> the most successful country in history. A piece of it is this. Not all of it because the car companies are doing better than they've ever done. The pharmaceutical companies, they're all building factories. Uh you take a look at Eli Liy, they're spending billion, tens of billions of dollars building plants for pharmaceuticals.

Nobody's ever seen what's happened to our country. And what the Democrats are trying to do is stop it because they think it's bad politically for them. And on that, they're probably right. Mr. President, >> sir, >> is Iran, in your opinion, about to give up, about to concede, >> they're doing very poorly. I don't know if they're going to give up yet, but they'll give up. But, uh, they're doing very poorly. Mr. You know, we took more oil out of the harm straight over the last couple of days than at any point in history, including long before we had the war to stop the nuclear weapon.

And this is to stop the nuclear weapon. Iran will not have a nuclear. This technology is advancing. >> Might do it. I think it's a good idea. Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, you agree with Senator F, my friend from London. >> Mr. President, Mr. President, >> from London, a great British journalist here from Britain and the UK seem to want to use SI to control the populations and crack down on free speech.

Do you see, thank you for the nodding, do you see this causing a problem between America and that part of the world? >> No, I think maybe just the opposite. It's going to open things up. That part of the world has a lot of problems right now. They're not growing. They stif, you know, they're stifled. Europe is doing so poorly. And I don't like saying that percent of Americans think the federal government is not doing enough in terms of AI.

What is your message to them today when you're saying there don't need to be anymore? >> When you say not doing enough, our companies are dominating the world. Dominating. >> They think the federal government. Not doing enough. I know. I know. But they're dominating China. the dominating. We want to keep it that way. >> You said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, right? Why not? South North Korea can have nuclear weapons. >> Ah, that's interesting.

You know why? Because you had a different president and they could have stopped him. He happens to be a friend of mine. Kim Jong-un, he's a friend of mine. He likes Trump. Doesn't like a lot of other people. He I'm about the only person in the entire world that he likes and I like him. I get in a lot of heat when I say that. People say that's terrible. He does have a nuclear capacity, a large nuclear, pretty large nuclear, not like us, but he has a nuclear capacity.

Kim Jong-un. And you know why? Because they had presidents that didn't do what I did. >> Mr. President, can I ask you about Mr. President? >> That could have been stopped. You know that. >> But they had presidents that weren't Trump and they didn't stop. >> Mr. President, Mr. President, >> you know what? As long as I'm around, he's going to be fine. >> Mr. President, Mr. President, can I ask about why? Because he respects me and he likes me.

Mr. President, can we ask about in the UK? Mr. President, >> have you decided on an AI or a super intelligence? >> Uh, I'm very close to making a decision. Yes, Mr. President. >> I'll be naming, I'd say, over the next three or four days. I want to check with the companies. I want to check with Mike and with John Thoon and with everybody else that's involved. But we have somebody that's extraordinary. >> Mr. President, what can you tell us about? >> Mr.

What more can you tell us about the incident at Fairford in the UK that that >> I'm just disappointed that they caught terrorists? They did a good job and then they sort of let him go. I don't know. How do you let it How do you give bail to a terrorist? So, I don't know. >> Was this Was this a long-standing investigation? >> A long-standing. Yeah, we were involved in it, but in uh as you know, your fellow countrymen, they let him go.

So, >> well, they didn't let him go. They put him out on bail. I assume they have they have them watched closely, but these were serious people. Seriously bad people and they should not have done that. Yeah. >> Did you discuss your meeting with President Xi with the tech leaders today? What if any guard rail? >> We had a great meeting with President a lot of respect for President Xi and they have a lot of respect for President Xi.

Yeah, we discussed it in quite in great detail. >> Mr. President, can I ask you Mr. President? Thank you. Mr. President, what's your reaction to Republican candidates who are breaking with you, openly distancing themselves from you on issues like data centers, like immigration? Well, look, I won in a landslide. I won all seven swing states. I won all the states that you talked about. I think out of the 22 areas that we're talking about where there's big contention, I won 21 of them.

So, yeah, 21. And the other one was very close. In fact, a lot of people think I won two things. So, just so you understand, >> they all want me to go. I'm one person. They all want me to go campaign. I'm starting in about two days. I'm starting a literally a 32day tour going to all I'm going to Texas. I'm going to Ohio. I'm going to all different places. And as you see with Darlene, Lindsey Graham's sister, who's fantastic, by the way.

Uh she was behind in the polls. I went did a rally for her and now she, you know, she ended up meeting a very good politician, a great politician by a lot. >> But do candidates maybe have some leeway then to if they need to be if they need a break with you on some >> issu? I don't think there's much difference. I think when Mike goes and I go and we explain that the data centers are going to make these communities a fantastic amount of money and individually make up a lot of money.

I think they'll become very very >> but there's also the war on immigration. >> President Trump is standing for local communities and hardworking Americans and so are Republican candidates on the stump. There's no disagreement. What he's saying today, wait. What he's saying today is that these companies when they go in to innovate on behalf of the American people and on behalf of our national security and making sure we remain the last great superpower on the planet, they're also going to be heeding community concerns.

Every single one of them could come to the mics and tell you that that's their commitment. >> But as you know, candidates are also immigration going forward on partners. You >> know, we have a lot of things, but for the most part, I have to tell you, the Republican party is really united. We had a convention a couple of weeks ago that a lot of you said, "Oh, it's a midterm. It's never been done before. It's going to be a failure." And they put it against the NFL and we had 107 million views and the NFL had 25 million views.

That convention was unbelievable. It really successful. Uh but look, uh I would say generally speaking, the Republican party is as united as maybe I've ever seen. >> Mr. They love me and I love them. >> Go ahead, please. >> Thank you so much. I'm so sorry. Can we just bring Daario to the front for a second? >> Where's Dario? >> Was the one who kind of >> Dario made this call for >> whatever he says is okay. Be careful. >> Slow down to AI.

So, I just want to hear from you after this big summit where you are today. >> Look, I mean, I I will say what I've always said, which is that AI has incredible benefits. I've talked about the medical benefit to the technology. I as the president has said, you know, whoever wins AI wins. I think that's very important. But I think the technology has very real risks and you know the mechanism how we address those risks is still under discussion.

But we all need to work we all need to work together to make sure that we can win and we can win safely. If we if we do this right, we work with the president and everyone here, we can win safely. No guardrails. No guard rails. You know, Dario's been >> Do you think that policing is enough? >> He had a few Hold it, hold it, hold CNN fake news. >> Do you do you think that self policing is enough? Follow >> Look, Daario has been fantastic.

We had dinner the other night and he agrees with everyone. I mean, we all agree. Uh Mark had a view that was I thought really right down right down the middle. Mark, you want to discuss what you learned? >> Sure. I mean I can I can kind of summarize what I think we all signed today um which is it's the the White House accord on on um on developing this technology safely. The basic idea is that we want to give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way that we intend.

Right? So every company is building something that's a little bit different. You know having one set of standards for what is what everyone should want to build. Um, people want to do some different things, but I think what we can all agree on is that the American public and our customers want to know that what we're building is working in the way that we all intend. So we drafted a set of of principles and commitments around building robust internal controls and detecting if there are any issues with the technology coupled with uh multiple layers of of auditing and controls starting with internal risk review, external auditors and evaluators and agreeing that we're going to have all of our boards of directors independently review the reports that come from the auditors.

I think that these are good steps forward. The idea isn't that this is the only thing that we will ever do. It is that this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to and I was very proud uh to have that discussion with a number of our colleagues who I think are running great companies. Um you know it was sort of a a historic conversation. I don't think anything like this has come before and um I think this is a meaningful step forward.

So thank you is very important. Safe. We want it all to be safe. this tremendous good. We want him to be saved and they're going to be watching over each other. So, you want to say, >> Mr. President, >> first of all, thanks, Mr. President. >> You have no idea who these people are. These are the biggest people in the world. You have no idea who the hell they are. >> This guy is a monster and nobody knows. What a great life. >> To be a monster and not have to go through this.

You can walk down. He says, "What the name? What's your name?" >> Just All you have to know is Sundar. >> Sundar is his name. >> Hopefully a better tagline than I'm a monster, but uh Well, first of all, uh really proud to be here today as an industry. I think this moment is historic and consequential and I think there are extraordinary benefits to this technology. You can see it in the GDP growth we see. We have to make sure we are addressing the risks and the president has asked us as an industry to step up and we want to make sure we're putting our products safely and as Mark said we are signing up to a set of processes and controls like we do in other areas like financial controls uh in a company and we are bringing those well-known best practices uh to the development of >> why should the public trust Mr. trust that you can actually you know why because they're outstanding people and they don't want anybody they don't want anything to go wrong I mean their companies are at stake if something goes wrong their companies are at stake they're not going to let that happen >> issues to humanity >> this is going to be all for the good and we're going to have it be nice and safe and they're really going to be policing each other and that's the way it works >> president if you have information that national security is at risk with this technology will you support then is slow down of the technology. >> I will uh let the world know about it.

If I ever heard, I would come out here. I'd hold a news conference and I'd let the world know about it's not >> there is no risk to the national >> they're going to police themselves and say, >> sir, I think um thank you very much. Thank Thank you. I think the consensus today around that national security issue was being the leader in America in AI is the most important thing for national security. I think everybody agreed on that today.

Winning the AI race is winning and we need to do that. That's the first principle. Second principle that was discussed all day today was putting the American people first in that race and I think everybody came together around those two principles today. >> Jay, >> Mr. President, Mr. President, can I ask you about Can I ask about ICE enforcement? Cattle groups are warning that ICE crackdowns in Kansas are having problems. >> You about >> That's right. for beef processing, Mr.

President. And they're bringing up prices. Mr. President, any comment on your ICE enforcement bringing up prices? Mr. President, >> ICE has done a phenomenal job in keeping our people safe. They've done a fantastic job in taking murderers, rapists, drug dealers, the worst people on earth. The worst the worst people all over the world. They got dumped into our country by Joe Biden allowing open borders where people came in unvetted, untested, unchecked, and they walked through our country by 25 million.

And we've gotten most of the really bad ones out, and the rest are going out. But these are murderers and the worst people in the world. And we've done one hell of a job. And you ought to talk to the Democrats. Why did you allow 25 million people, many of whom were the worst criminals, why did you allow them into our country? You disturbed our country. You hurt our country. >> Mr. Mr. President said they're rising. >> Mr.

President, did you take the opportunity today to urge these tech leaders to be more careful about where they put data centers to avoid resident communities? >> Frankly, I want them built in America. There's some that will be built in right now Finland and other places. There's one going up in Finland. Uh if we're not smart, they'll end up building data centers in other in other countries and those other countries will make a fortune and we won't.

The data centers are making a fortune. But now what's happening is something very important. The people in those areas, and we discussed this at length today, they're going to greatly benefit financially. Mr. President, sorry, but do you want them to stay away from homes? Mr. President, do you want them to stay away from homes when they're building these data centers? >> Yeah, I think I want them to be in the right location within a community.

Mr. President, you know, if you look at Lowden County, if you look at some of these counties, they're making billions of dollars. Taxes are going way down. The data centers are making an absolute fortune. But now, the people are going to benefit directly. Whether it's teachers that get paid a bonus, whether it's people that live in the community that get paid a dividend, you could call it a dividend because a dividend sounds right.

Uh they are going to greatly benefit by what's happened. The data centers are incred. And by the way, I'm very good at real estate. Some of those buildings are absolutely beautiful. They're big and they're, you know, big, strong, powerful buildings, but they're beautiful and they add greatly to a community. It started with a false narrative mostly by Mike I would say Democrats that data centers are bad. So data centers are bringing a tremendous amount of money into the community and the people now are going to benefit directly whether it's teachers or other people that live in the country. >> What about the risk of Chinese AI development overtaking the US?

What do you mean? >> I don't think it's going to happen unless we're stupid and we force these people into other countries and that can happen. What did they tell you? >> I mean, there's one gentleman that's in he happens to be building one in Europe because it was easier for him to do. We can't do that. We want them built in this country. We want It's massive income. People's taxes are going to go down. Uh it's going to pay off debt.

It's massive income. It's growth. You know the word growth? When I got elected, I talked about growth. This is growth like nobody's ever seen before. people across the world are worried about their own job when it comes to SI and Mr. Musk has spoken about an age of abundance which sounds lovely but what about when people >> Elon I didn't see you back there what are you doing so far back may we hear from >> what are the jobs of the future >> Elon go ahead you could answer that question >> sorry the question was about age of >> abundance the future because people looking at this will be worried particularly laptop jobs what what are they going to do in the future this month >> well I think it is worth highlighting the the positive benefits of AI uh which SI pardon me >> thank you >> super intelligent Um I I think by far the most likely outcome is an age of abundance uh where we don't have just universal basic income, we have universal high income.

Um and uh you know people speak about medical benefits. I think the uh but but maybe it's worth talking a bit more about that. Um when you have uh robots and you have super intelligence, it means that everyone in the world can have better medical care than anyone here, including me. Um, and wouldn't that be wonderful? >> Not if they haven't got a job. >> Well, jobs are going to change. Job jobs have always changed. Uh, but, uh, it being a computer used to be a job.

There used to be buildings full of people doing calculations. Uh, but now, uh, computer, you know, digital computers do do those tasks. And I don't think anyone is, uh, pining to go back and do calculations all day, uh, to do bank interest rates, which is what they used to do. So I think we'll see an evolution of of roles. Um and uh and as the president has mentioned the uh it's not as though unemployment has increased.

In fact, there's a tremendous demand for people. Um so I I think the most likely outcome and it's probably worth looking at the most likely outcome is one which is incredibly beneficial and it's a future that you if you could if you could look into the future, it is a future you would want. >> Mr. presidently >> uh Elon and I sat with President Xi the other day >> and he will take every data center that we don't want.

Do you agree with that? >> He's done. He would left out every single one because you know why? They're smart. >> They want every data center. They want it because that's great for China. Well, it's great for us and we're leading by a lot and we're going to keep it that way. It's going to be also it's going to be very very safe and there's a self policing and there's also a group policing and it's going to be great >> question Mr.

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