“Get ready to go to jail. Please give your wife a kiss goodnight.” That is what US President Donald Trump told a top AI executive to get them back in line on AI safety.Speaking on CBS’ 60 Minutes, the US president revealed the time when he took matters into his own hands and warned a top AI official after receiving news of a potential risk. “We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI,” Trump said.After learning about this threat, Donald Trump decided to make it quite clear that this unnamed executive had no choice but to change their approach. “We called them very strongly and said, ‘Get ready to go to jail.

Please give your wife a kiss good night,’” The US president said.Trump claimed that he gave this executive just one night to prepare for their arrest, urging them to see their kids. “We said, ‘Go home right now. See your wife and children.

Give them a kiss good night. Because tomorrow morning, you’re going to jail,’” he added.

Who did Donald Trump threaten?During the programme, Donald Trump said the person was the leader of “one of the big” AI companies but declined to provide further details. He claimed that after the warning, “this person totally changed everything.” He also said the Department of Justice was managing risks linked to the technology.Though looking at the senior executives in the world of AI today, we can at least rule out some possible names.

Apple’s chairman Tim Cook has no children, so it is likely not him. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a son, but he has a husband, Oliver Mulherin.

Elon Musk does have many kids, but he is divorced. We then have the likes of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, both of whom are married with children.

Though the latter is at the centre of an affair scandal with alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is married, but his parental status remains unclear.

However, Anthropic has had a fallout with the Trump administration over AI safety in the past. All of this is mere speculation though.AI risk not as real as some claim, Trump saysMoving beyond this mysterious AI official, Donald Trump was asked about AI researchers raising alarms over AI safety.

Straight off the bat, the US president made it clear that, in his view, the US could not afford to lose the AI race to China. “First of all, because China’s gonna have it, okay? So if we don’t have it, China’s gonna have it,” he said. “That would put us at an unbelievable disadvantage.

It’s all between us and China. There’s nobody else.”Coming to the risks of AI potentially ending humanity within a few years, Donald Trump claimed that such fears were overblown. “I think that the risk is not nearly as real as they talk.

And I think the risk can be managed,” he said.But it appears that Trump, who recently lost the US House of Republicans and the Senate to the Democrats, said he was “absolutely” willing to work with Democrats on AI safety. “I don’t mind guardrails. But I don’t want to put us in a deep second position,” the US president added. “We’re leading number one.

And China has no guardrails, by the way. They have the guardrails that whatever President Xi says goes.

With me, it’s pretty strong, but it’s not quite that strong.”Democrats have had a less welcoming approach to AI compared to the Trump administration, which has largely worked with US AI companies. Under Trump, the US AI companies also signed a voluntary AI accord over safe development of the technology in September.- Ends