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An artificial intelligence (AI) advocacy group is urging President-elect Trump to make billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk a particular adviser to the White Home centered on AI.
Individuals for Accountable Innovation (ARI) launched the petition on Monday, which touted Musk’s work on AI and stated the billionaire has struck a steadiness between guaranteeing AI is developed safely and advancing the rising expertise.
“As synthetic intelligence races forward, the U.S. ought to lead the world in advancing AI safely and securely,” the group stated in its petition. “Nobody is best geared up to assist the Trump Administration make America lead on AI than Elon Musk.
“Musk has made main contributions to the sector of AI each as an entrepreneur and as a thought chief. Whereas advancing AI, he has additionally advocated for AI security and the necessity to mitigate existential and catastrophic dangers,” ARI’s petition added.
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Individuals for Accountable Innovation’s petition urges the incoming Trump administration to make Elon Musk a presidential advisor for AI. (Samuel Corum/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The petition additionally famous that Musk lately referred to as for regulators to have insights into what Huge Tech corporations are doing on AI and added that whereas there needs to be “correct mechanisms in place to deal with conflicts of curiosity, Musk can be a useful asset for serving to the Trump administration navigate the event of this transformational expertise.”
Musk has firsthand involvement within the AI revolution by his work as CEO of Tesla in addition to xAI, an AI-focused startup he launched in 2023. He has additionally pursued lawsuits towards OpenAI alleging that the AI startup violated its unique mission by switching to a for-profit association.
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Musk endorsed Trump publicly after an unsuccessful assassination try towards the previous president over the summer time. (Justin Merriman/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
He additionally endorsed a California invoice to require AI builders who spend greater than $100 million to construct an AI mannequin to additionally implement security testing in addition to safeguards towards cyberattacks, whereas additionally permitting the state legal professional basic to take civil motion towards AI builders that trigger “crucial hurt.”
Although the invoice handed the California legislature, it was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who took difficulty with its design to focus on the most important AI builders and famous that AI fashions developed by smaller corporations might emerge to be equally or extra harmful than those who would’ve been coated by the legislation.
| Ticker | Safety | Final | Change | Change % |
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| TSLA | TESLA INC. | 350.00 | +28.78 | +8.96% |
Musk has additionally referred to as for President-elect Trump to create a Division of Authorities Effectivity that might work to seek out and eradicate wasteful federal spending and supplied to tackle a job in advancing the group’s work.
He has touted the effectivity initiative for months since he first introduced his help for Trump’s marketing campaign to return to the White Home. Trump stated previous to the election that he would ask Musk to lead the federal government effectivity fee if he had been to win.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was an enthusiastic supporter of Trump’s profitable presidential marketing campaign. (Ryan Collerd/AFP by way of Getty / Getty Pictures)
Nevertheless, Musk’s degree of involvement together with his numerous enterprise ventures has prompted scrutiny from buyers — a dynamic his involvement in extra advisory roles on the White Home might exacerbate.
Tesla buyers who had been against Musk’s $56 billion pay bundle argued that he is too distracted by his other ventures to advantage what’s believed to be probably the most profitable compensation bundle for any CEO of a publicly traded firm.
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Tesla shareholders voted to reinstate Musk’s pay package this summer time after it was voided by a Delaware decide in January over points with disclosures about Musk’s private relationships with board members who permitted the compensation bundle in 2018. The case stays pending.
