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Donald Trump rejects ‘globalist scheme’ to control AI in blow to Andy Burnham

President says US is ‘leading over China by a lot and everyone else, and we’re going to keep it that way’

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Donald Trump has rejected a “globalist scheme” to control AI, delivering a blow to UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s plan to develop new G20 global guidelines for the technology.

Trump said in a speech to the UN on Tuesday that “the US totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control artificial intelligence”, adding that his administration would in future refer to AI as “superintelligence”.

His comments came shortly before his first face-to-face meeting with Burnham, who has said the UK wants to use its G20 presidency next year to focus on potential AI risks.

The prime minister also claimed Britain could be an “honest broker” between the US and China in developing a new global framework for overseeing the development of the technology.

Trump’s comments came ahead of his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the White House this week. “We’re leading now over China by a lot and everyone else, and we’re going to keep it that way,” he said.

In spite of the disagreement on AI, the meeting between Burnham and Trump in New York appeared largely amicable, with the president seeming to prefer the new prime minister to his predecessor Sir Keir Starmer.

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