Yuval Harari at WEF warns of growing global surveillance system while Donald Trump heralds U.S. advances in AI and crypto, brushing off potential for evil
President Trump takes time during keynote speech to tout US dominance in AI tech, while praising BlackRock CEO Larry Fink... 'Everything Larry touches turns to gold!'
President Donald Trump gave the keynote speech Wednesday at the World Economic Forum annual conference at Davos, Switzerland, to much fanfare.
He devoted a huge chunk of his hour-and-a-half speech to Greenland and the reasons why America needs to own it.
He bragged about making America the greatest economy in the world, and about how he’s completely solved the problems of high inflation and low affordability that he inherited from the previous administration. We are the envy of the world, he said, when it comes to the economy and our military strength.
Then he pivoted to technology.
He said he is beating China in two very important areas of technological achievement, AI and crypto. He’s placed America on a fast track to what sounds like a coming digital currency.
He gave literally one sentence to the potential dark side for AI, then prattled on about how it’s going to be wonderful for America and the world.
In the context of crypto and AI, Trump praised BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who is also…
