Trump resists AI slowdown as the political tide turns

DUBLIN – President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to dismiss calls from top artificial intelligence leaders to slow the development of AI models, as Democrats seize on his administration’s resistance to regulation as a line of attack in the midterms. “We’re leading China in AI, we’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way,” he said on the sidelines of the Irish Open golf tournament. “Whoever wins AI wins.” Trump has staked much of his economic record on speeding up AI advances, as a boom in the technology drives historic highs in…