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Elon Musk thinks the world is woefully unprepared for the impact of artificial intelligence. On Sunday, he agreed that the technology will hit people like an asteroid, and he revealed that he used his only one-on-one meeting with then President Barack Obama to push for A.I. regulation.

The Twitter and Tesla CEO made the comments in response to a tweet from A.I. software developer Mckay Wrigley, who wrote on Saturday: It blows my mind that people cant apply exponential growth to the capabilities of AI. You wouldve been called a *lunatic* a year ago if you said wed have GPT-4 level AI right now. Now think another year. 5yrs? 10yrs? Its going to hit them like an asteroid.

Musk responded: I saw it happening from well before GPT-1, which is why I tried to warn the public for years. The only one on one meeting I ever had with Obama as President I used not to promote Tesla or SpaceX, but to encourage AI regulation. Obama had dinner with Musk in February 2015 in San Francisco.

This week, Musk responded to news about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer laying the groundwork for Congress to regulate artificial intelligence.

Good news! AI regulation will be far more important than it may seem today, Musk tweeted.

According to the Financial Times, Musk is developing plans to launch an A.I. startup, dubbed X.AI, to compete against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which makes generative A.I. tools, including the A.I. chatbots ChatGPT and GPT-4 and the image generator DALL-E 2.

Musk is also reportedly working on an A.I. project at Twitter.

A few weeks ago, Musk called for a six-month pause on developing A.I. tools more advanced than GPT-4, the successor to ChatGPT. He was joined in signing an open letter by hundreds of technology experts, among them Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. The letter warned of mass-scale misinformation and the mass automation of jobs.

The power of A.I. systems to automate some white-collar jobs is in little doubt. A Wharton professor recently ran an experiment to see what A.I. tools could accomplish on a business project in 30 minutes and called the results superhuman. Meanwhile some remote workers are apparently taking advantage of productivity-enhancing A.I. tools to hold multiple full-time jobs, with their employers none the wiser. But fears that in the long run A.I. will replace many jobs are mounting.

Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit, but he parted ways with it after a power struggle with CEO Sam Altman over its control and direction, according to the Wall Street Journal.

He tweeted on Feb. 17 that OpenAI was created as an open-source nonprofit to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all.

Altman himself has warned frequently about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Last month in an ABC interview, he said that other A.I. developers working on ChatGPT-like tools wont apply the kind of safety limits his firm hasand the clock is ticking.

Musk has long believed that oversight for artificial intelligence is necessary, having described the technology as potentially more dangerous than nukes.

We need some kind of, like, regulatory authority or something overseeing A.I. development, he told Tesla investors last month. Make sure its operating in the public interest.

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Elon Muskrecalls his only one-on-one meeting with former U.S. PresidentBarack Obama, during which he didnt talk aboutTesla Inc.TSLA orSpaceXbut something else.

What Happened:Responding to aTwitteruser who said people dont seem to apply exponential growth to the capabilities of AI, Musk said, I saw it happening from well before GPT-1, which is why I tried to warn the public for years.

He also recalled the time when he met Obama and didnt promote Tesla or SpaceX but encouraged AI regulation.

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Musk is among the 1000+ signatories, includingApple Inc.AAPL co-founderSteve Wozniakwho signed an open lettercalling for a pause on training systemsexceedingOpenAIs GPT-4.

He previously insultedMicrosoft CorporationMSFT co-founderBill Gatessaying he had alimited understanding of AI, which still persists.

Why Its Important:While Musk is vocally asking to slow down AI development and introduce appropriate regulations, he is reportedly embarking on amission to launch an OpenAI rival.

On Friday, it was reported that the Tesla CEO had assembled a team of AI researchers and engineers and secured thousands of high-powered GPU processors fromNvidia Corp.NVDA.

Last month, it was reported that Musk wanted to run OpenAI the company he co-founded in 2015 by himself,but his proposal was turned downby fellow co-founderSam Altmanand others.

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Once upon atime, the Olsen twins were the arbiters of enigmatic style, their monochromatic dress code and aloof chain-smoking pap snaps inspiring ageneration of depressed Tumblr girls and would-be fashion editors to wear more black and use less shampoo. But nothing lasts forever, especially in the fickle whosin-whosout world of #fashion TikTok. Mary-Kate and Ashley, now 36, are and always will be cool, yes. But now, anew sibling duo seem primed to take their spot as the worlds coolest sisters. Now, its all about the Obamas.

When you think about it, Malia, 25, and Sasha Obama, 22, are the Olsens natural successors. Like the Olsens, they have been the most famous children on the planet for the majority of their lives, having moved into the White House aged 10 and seven, respectively. And although they didnt have lucrative careers as child stars to simultaneously shake off and one-up as they entered adulthood, they did have adad who was once the most powerful man in the world. How do you step out of ashadow as colossal as the presidency?

Short answer: you dont even try. Over the past few years, Malia and Sasha Obama have become accidental internet style icons in spite of their efforts to stay (sort of) under the radar and live (sort of) normal lives. Seven years ago, 15-year-old Sasha got asummer job waiting tables and they both sacked off the usual nepo baby behaviour to go to uni Harvard for Malia, University of Southern California for Sasha. And, crucially, they stay off social media.

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Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina has announced the formation of an exploratory committee for his candidacy for president.

You may have noticed that Scott is Black. We may ask, in this woke age of ours, the extent to which this matters in his candidacy.

I think it does matter, which requires some explanation given that I am adamantly opposed to identity politics in all its shapes and forms.

Should Scott run and win, he will not be Americas first Black president. When Americas first Black president, Barack Obama, did run and win, it was widely viewed as a turning point in American history.

Many thought that, at last, the era of racial politics had come to an end. Now, the thinking went, that Americans showed that a Black man could run for and win the presidency, we would move on from our national obsession with race and move on to dealing with issues confronting the nation as they impact every citizen, regardless of race.

But it didnt happen.

The American people twice chose Obama as their president, and today, perhaps more than ever, racial awareness and politics permeate our day-to-day realities.

They permeate practically all political institutions, corporate boardrooms, athletics, universities, K-12 schools and our day-to-day marketplace.

And its why Scotts candidacy is so important and why his race matters.

Early in Obamas first term he traveled to Europe for a NATO meeting, and in the press conference after, he was asked by a reporter from the Financial Times if he believes in American exceptionalism.

For Obama to say yes would have been for him to state in this international forum that there is something unique and special about his country that sets it apart from and above others.

By standards of political correctness, a yes answer would have been most incorrect. Obamas finely tuned political skills immediately kicked in and he answered in a most politically correct way.

I believe in American exceptionalism, he said, just as the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks in Greek exceptionalism.

Americas first Black president is a very politically correct man. and its why his presidency changed nothing regarding racial realities in America.

Tim Scott is not a politically correct man, and it is why his potential presidency can change everything.

He does believe America is exceptional, and he is not afraid to say it. His recent book, America, A Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity, recounts what he has learned growing up poor, becoming a successful businessman and making his way to the U.S. Senate and now, maybe, the presidency.

His personal success story is not about government programs, but about perseverance and grit, only possible with faith and freedom.

Scott is pro-freedom, pro-private property, pro-personal responsibility and initiative and pro-life.

We must understand that the collapse of these core issues and principles, so vital to a genuinely free society, is threatening our nation both domestically and internationally.

As David McCormick and James Cunningham show in their new book, Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America, our collapsing culture is endangering national security, as the Army falls short of recruitment goals with more and more young Americans unwilling or unable to serve.

Tim Scott is Black man in America who knows that this is an exceptional country and that the exceptionalism is rooted in faith and freedom.

Scott understands that out future starts in the hearts and minds of every American citizen of every background and that our future does not start in Washington.

This vital message was lost in the presidency of our first Black president, and great damage was done.

So, Scotts race matters not for woke reasons but for anti-woke reasons.

This is a candidacy that can make all the difference where Barack Obama failed.

STAR PARKER is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show Cure America with Star Parker.

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Kelly Craft, a Trump-era U.N. ambassador and first-time candidate, and her allies have bombarded Kentucky airwaves with ads yoking her better-known opponent to former President Barack Obama. | Timothy D. Easley/AP Photo

A Republican mega-donor is opening her wallet in an effort to win the Kentucky governorship spending millions laying waste to the Republican frontrunner in an increasingly bitter primary.

Kelly Craft, a Trump-era United Nations ambassador and first-time candidate, and her allies have bombarded Kentucky airwaves with ads yoking her better-known opponent, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, to former President Barack Obama and portraying him as a soft establishment teddy bear. And thats to say nothing of the hits on him focused on coal and crime with one ad from a Craft-supportive super PAC drawing a fairly tenuous connection from Cameron to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a bogeyman in the GOP for his prosecution of former President Donald Trump in New York.

The spending by Craft has upended GOP politics in Kentucky, rocketing someone who was almost entirely unknown in the commonwealth outside of major donor circles to the top tier of the primary heap.

Craft has bought herself into a two person race, said Scott Jennings, a well-known Republican operative in the state who has remained neutral in the contest. The question is is there enough runway left?

But the brutal primary between the two could also come at a cost. The Kentucky governorship is a prime target for Republicans this year with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear occupying the governorship in a state Trump won by 26 points in 2020. The circular firing squad now unfolding in the GOP primary is giving an already popular Democratic incumbent an opening to peel off at least a sliver of Republican voters turned off by the in-fighting.

Public polling for the primary has been incredibly sparse in the race a recent poll from Emerson College/Fox56 released last week had Cameron at 30 percent and Craft at 24 percent but Republicans believe the race has tightened since the beginning of the year, when Cameron was broadly believed to have a yawning lead.

Republicans point to two big inflection points left on the calendar: The lone debate where all three of the top-tier candidates will share a stage a May 1 faceoff hosted by Kentucky Educational Television and arguably the biggest event all year in the state: The Kentucky Derby. It falls just 10 days before the primary election.

Craft has loaned her campaign $7 million since the start of the year, according to campaign finance reports filed on Tuesday night, with an additional $260,000 coming from other donors. Cameron, by comparison, raised just over $400,000 in that same time period.

Ryan Quarles, the state agriculture commissioner, is a possible viable third candidate in the race especially if the fight between Cameron and Kelly becomes hotter. Quarles was at 15 percent in the Emerson poll, the only other candidate sniffing double digits, and has touted a deep bench of endorsements from across the states 120 counties.

Crafts campaign and Commonwealth PAC, a super PAC supporting her bid, have been throwing most of the haymakers, with Craft until relatively recently having the TV airwaves all to herself.

A pair of ads from her campaign looked to tie Cameron to President Joe Biden, Beshear and Obama on the future of a West Virginia coal plant a deep blow in a state that has historically been the home to the coal industry.

And in a series of ads, the super PAC has used an extended motif of Cameron being a soft establishment teddy bear, literally transforming Cameron into a stuffed bear in a suit at the end of the ads. The most recent one is the Bragg ad, going after Cameron for at one point supporting cash bail reform. (Prosecuted Trump! the ad declares as a video of Bragg talking about bail reform plays.) It ends by morphing the two men into teddy bears.

Camerons backers have just started hitting back on the airwaves. On Tuesday, a pro-Cameron super PAC Bluegrass Freedom Action launched a new ad saying a desperate Kelly Craft falsely attacks Cameron, while noting that Trump has endorsed Cameron, not Craft. And in a statement to POLITICO, the super PACs general consultant Aaron Whitehead questioned if she was eligible to run for office under the states residency requirement.

Absentee Ambassador Kelly Craft was a no show for her previous job and now shes pulling the same trick on Kentuckians by trying to buy her way out of a scandal, Whitehead said. No one knows if she actually lives in Kentucky or still lives in Oklahoma which could disqualify her from the ballot.

The groups charge relies on reporting from POLITICO in 2019 that found she spent roughly a third of her time as U.S. ambassador to Canada in Kentucky or Oklahoma, along with federal and state political donations she has made through the 2022 cycle with an Oklahoma address. State law requires gubernatorial candidates to be a citizen and resident of Kentucky for at least 6 years next preceding his [sic] election.

Crafts campaign was dismissive of the broadside from the super PAC. The only thing more palpable than the momentum behind Kelly Craft is the Cameron teams desperation, Kristin Davison, a senior adviser for Craft, said in a statement.

Cameron could also lean more into Trump who endorsed his campaign last summer, shortly after Craft and her husband, coal magnate Joe Craft, were prominently pictured with the former president at the Kentucky Derby but months before her own campaign launch.

Kentuckys most powerful Republican in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, meanwhile, has not publicly weighed in on the race. But he has close ties to both candidates.

Craft and her husband have been longtime financial supporters of McConnell and the Republican Party more broadly. The then-Senate majority leader was instrumental in getting Craft nominated and confirmed to be U.N. ambassador.

Cameron has perhaps even deeper ties. He worked in McConnells office for two years and was widely assumed to be the successor-in-waiting for McConnells seat in the Senate when he eventually retires. Camerons decision to run for governor caught many by surprise, both in Washington and Kentucky.

Davison, the adviser to Craft, took a swipe at that close relationship between the two men in her statement, saying Camerons team was having a bad morning after finding out their Mitch McConnell-groomed candidate has fallen a net 19 points over the last few weeks.

Madison Fernandez contributed to this report.

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