Bessent Says AI Industry Must Own Its Risks and Find Solutions - Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized prominent artificial-intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions. “I believe that we have to be prepared for every occasion, but on the other side, this alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” Bessent told Axios in an interview published Saturday. Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei , OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI Corp. ’s Elon Musk in September called for the industry to slow development of its most advanced models, ... Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading: See Breaking News in Context Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis. Learn more Already a subscriber? Log in to keep reading or access research tools and resources. Log In