President Trump says the Justice Department told the head of one of the big AI companies to "get ready to go to jail," then plans to pardon "anybody that got within a thousand miles of the Oval Office" on his way out. In his first sit-down since the midterm wipeout, he also said the countries the U.S. protected will repay "any and all costs" of the Iran war and wouldn't say who throttled Ukraine's Starlink.
Asked by 60 Minutes' Ross Douthat why he isn't worried about the doom scenarios AI builders themselves describe, Trump said the risk "can be managed," and then said by whom. "The DOJ. We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI. We called them very strongly and said, 'Get ready to go to jail. Please give your wife a kiss good night.'"
WOW: President Trump SHOCKINGLY reveals that the leader of "one of the big" AI companies was caught doing "something bad" with artificial intelligence. The Trump administration called him with a BLUNT WARNING: "Get ready to go to jail, please give your wife a kiss good night."… pic.twitter.com/1ebWkGqbru
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"I can't tell you," Trump said when Douthat asked who it was, adding that the message went on: "Do you like the color orange? ... Go home right now, see your wife and children, give them a kiss good night." Asked whether it was the leader of a major AI company, one of the big ones, Tru
