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Decoding America: Why won't Donald Trump regulate AI? - podcast

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Published Sep 16, 20261 min read

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In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at whether there is any appetite across the political spectrum to put guardrails on artificial intelligence as around the world existential fears mount that the technology is developing too quickly. They also explain what the latest supreme court ruling on the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot restrictions means for the midterms.

And they look at what happened when the US president waded into the Irish reunification debate Read more: Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies John Crace: AI on course to kill us all within 10 years? Donald Trump says: ‘Hold my Coke’

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