[NYP] Jay Clayton was a great pick to be President Donald Trump’s new artificial-intelligence czar — a smart guy to handle the delicate job of running the White House task force on the tech.
The director of national intelligence has four months to report on the pros and cons of the technology; he’ll work with a larger task force ordered to figure out how the United States remains the leader in AI while “the interests of the American people are put first,” as he puts it.
“The risk of not being first is high,” Clayton rightly told The Wall Street Journal — since letting Chinese companies, tightly controlled by their totalitarian government, take the lead basically ensures monstrous results even beyond ceding economic leadership to Beijing.
Democrats are now running hard on AI hysteria, with Sen. Bernie Sanders pushing to stop research dead in its tracks (just months after he was calling for the feds to seize half the stock in AI firms).
Also seeding fear are some AI insiders, whether because they’re looking to partner with Uncle Sam to shut out new competitors or because they’re in love with their own wilder speculation about their models becoming self-aware or even having souls.
All of which makes Clayton, a smart but extremely level-headed guy, perfect as Trump’s point man and a nice contrast to the . . . eccentric characters who helm the top AI firms.
He’s a longtime corporate lawyer who helmed the Securities and Exchange Commission in Trump’s first term (annoying some because he was happy to work with Democrats to get his job done) then hard-charging US attorney for the Southern District of New York starting in 2025 (overseeing the thankless task of vetting the Epstein Files for public release) before taking over as DNI this summer.
Since his only real critics are far-left ideologues like Sanders and Sen. Liz Warren, he ought to be able to bolster support for Trump’s trust-but-verify approach to keeping AI development safe.
The country needs to retain its leadership on this tech, while holding companies responsible for any abuses; the safest course is staying in first because, as Clayton says, “Not being first increases the identified and unidentified risks, particularly from our adversaries.
[Bee] ITHACA, NY — Immediately following her appointment as a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged sexual assault of a female student, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she was indicting President Donald Trump in the Cornell case.
Fierce debate swirled on social media about the case, but James said she determined almost instantly upon joining the investigation that Trump was the one who was ultimately responsible for the incident.
"I know he's to blame somehow," James told the media when announcing the indictment. "Though he was not present at the time of the incident, has no connection to Cornell University, and was not named by anyone involved, I'm absolutely sure he's the one behind all of it. Justice will be served. As long as it's against Trump."
James made it clear that no stone would be left unturned in her effort to indict Trump for another crime he didn't commit. "We have unfinished business," she told reporters. "And by ’unfinished business,' I mean I haven't been able to send him to prison, no matter how much stuff I try to make up out of thin air. But I will not quit until I get Trump behind bars for something he didn't do."
At publishing time, James had expanded her investigation to pursue the possibility that Trump was responsible for the death of Lindsay Clancy's children.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Bee] ITHACA, NY — Immediately following her appointment as a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged sexual assault of a female student, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she was indicting President Donald Trump in the Cornell case.
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