- A rhetorical move slides the word responsible from culpability to duty to virtue, so what sounds like a call for accountability ends up arguing that AI labs should be left to police themselves.
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang is presented as a heavy user of the move, calling himself a responsible optimist while labeling warnings about extinction risk irresponsible.
- The same framing turns up in comments from Scott Bessent, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, a cybersecurity executive and a newspaper op-ed, and in reported plans by Google, OpenAI and Anthropic for an industry-run safety standards body.
- The dispatch asks readers to use the words culpable and liable instead, since the companies racing toward superintelligence cannot be trusted to decide on their own when to stop.
- The U.S. China summit yielded little on AI beyond a communication channel between Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng, with Trump saying he wants to leave AI where it is and Xi talking of cooperation and human control.
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Full responsibility
By Mitchell Howe
A clever rhetorical trick and a disappointing conclusion to AI talks
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