Dear President Trump, here’s a deal you can actually make that will make you look great
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Claims from this post (6)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“I happen to think a slowdown might be a good idea, especially if we made it now while we are still ahead — that could actually lock in our lead!.”
Our reading: A slowdown in AI development might be a good idea, especially if the US does it now while still ahead.
No horizon
Qualifier: especially if done now while the US is still ahead
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“I happen to think a slowdown might be a good idea, especially if we made it now while we are still ahead — that could actually lock in our lead!.”
Our reading: If the US adopted an AI slowdown now while ahead, it could lock in the US lead.
No horizon
Only if: if the US slows down AI development now while still ahead
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“And I would caution you that if we don’t have a slowdown, really bad things might happen, and you would take a lot of the blame.”
Our reading: Without an AI slowdown, really bad things might happen, and Trump would take much of the blame.
No horizon
Only if: if there is no slowdown
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“Instead, you can go for something that will surprise a lot of folks: you can go for collaboration — just like we did back in the Cold War with the Soviet Union, around things like space and smallpox. But this time around cancer and cybersecurity.”
Our reading: The US should pursue AI collaboration with China on cancer and cybersecurity, as with the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
No horizon
Qualifier: around cancer and cybersecurity
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“China is practically begging to collaborate.”
Our reading: China is eager to collaborate with the US on AI, contrary to claims it would never want to.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: Support depends on reading the phrase as an emphatic description of public overtures.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“If you make a deal on all this, you really could win that Nobel.”
Our reading: If Trump makes a deal with China on the AI collaboration Marcus proposes (such as on cancer and cybersecurity), he really could win a Nobel Prize.
No horizon
Only if: if Trump makes a deal with China on AI collaboration as proposed