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In Truth Social posts on Monday, President Donald Trump downplayed concerns about artificial intelligence (AI), calling criticism of its unregulated expansion a “hoax,” even as experts warn about the speed at which the technology is growing.

The president’s post cited imagery reminiscent of sci-fi movies, rather than referencing the ways in which AI is already being used in warfare and to invade individuals’ privacy rights.

“AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX,” Trump wrote in his first post, “no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA — UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1 — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2 — and all of the other HOAXES and SCAMS that America was forced to endure.”

Notably, all of those items (the Russia investigation and potential charges Trump could have faced from it, the impeachment due to Trump’s leveraging aid to Ukraine for political dirt on former President Joe Biden, and his second impeachment due to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021) were not “hoaxes.”

In his second post, Trump reiterated his claim that warnings about AI were “hoaxes,” this time referencing the climate crisis, which is also not a hoax.

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“I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!” Trump wrote.

The posts came just one day after Trump dismissed the public push for AI to be regulated,........

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