Trump urged to combine US AI leadership and safety — Jerusalem Post
Israeli outlet The Jerusalem Post published an open letter to US President Donald Trump. Its author called on Washington to combine technological leadership in artificial intelligence with the creation of rules and international cooperation for the safe use of technology.
The letter’s author, a global strategist and strategic adviser at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, said that the United States cannot cede technological leadership to China or other states. At the same time, he warned that victory in short-term competition would not be complete if it created uncontrolled risks in five, ten, or twenty years.
Risks of AI use
The author compared the need for rules for artificial intelligence to the approaches used during the nuclear rivalry between the United States and the USSR. In his view, the SALT and START treaties were based not on trust between the sides, but on the understanding that technological superiority alone does not eliminate the risk of catastrophe.
The letter says that AI can accelerate access to specialized knowledge, reduce the time needed, and lower the cost of creating dangerous capabilities. The author referred to information released by Anthropic about attempts by hostile actors to use advanced AI capabilities for activities related to the development of ballistic missiles. He suggested that such tools could also be used to create biological, chemical, and other weapons of mass destruction.
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Separately, the author mentioned Anthropic’s reports on the use of AI by actors linked to the Iranian state in influence operations, surveillance, and so-called cognitive warfare.
The UN General Assembly platform
The author stressed that the response to the risks should not be a slowdown in technological development. Instead, he proposed simultaneously accelerating AI development, oversight mechanisms, and international cooperation.
He called on Trump to use his address to the UN General Assembly to begin a global conversation about maintaining meaningful human control over increasingly powerful systems. In the author’s view, the United States’ technological advantage gives Washington an opportunity to lead the development of such rules without handing control over the issue of artificial intelligence to the UN.
