Netanyahu meets US Democrats; calls for military option against Iran, cooperation on AI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with a visiting US Congressional delegation from the Democratic party, reiterating his call for a credible military threat to deter Iran’s nuclear plans.

“The most important thing is to produce a credible military threat to Iran. The other thing is use it. We don’t want a world in which Iran can threaten New York or Washington or Los Angeles or anything in between with nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu tells the visiting delegation, which was organized by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC.

“Certainly we’re not going to have one in which they could annihilate Israel, which they call a one-bomb country. It’s an abhorrent statement but it tells you where they are. We will do everything in our power, with or without this or that agreement, to defend ourselves,” Netanyahu tells the group led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and AIPAC president Michael Tuchin.

Netanyahu also calls for Israel and the US to lead the way in developing artificial intelligence police.

He says AI presents massive potential for the world, but also grave threats.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today with a US Democratic Congressional delegation, organized by AIPAC, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and AIPAC President Michael Tuchin.

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“I’ve been studying this now for the past few months, having studied before that cybersecurity and having made Israel, and I’ve committed to have it become, one of the five cyber powers. AI is much, much, much bigger. The hype is not hype. It’s real,” Netanyahu says.

“The future belongs to those who innovate but the future also belongs to the free societies who cooperate with each other to assure that our people, our citizens, get the benefits of AI and not its curses. We have plenty of both,” he says.