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This week, the White House gathered top tech executives—including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei—to sign an AI safety pledge described as 'morally binding.' President Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence.'
Meanwhile, companies like Meta and OpenAI are softening the public image of their AI products, even as most major investment continues to flow from enterprise clients rather than everyday consumers. New data suggests only about 2% of consumers are embracing the 'super intelligence' label, highlighting a gap between industry messaging and public perception.
The discussion points to a disconnect between how AI companies and policymakers frame the technology and how the public actually views and adopts it, even as venture funding and activity in the sector remain strong.
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