SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is beginning a U.S. journey in California to talk about expertise and artificial intelligence with billionaire businessman Elon Musk.
The Israeli chief posted Monday on Musk’s social media platform X, previously often called Twitter, that he plans to talk with the Tesla CEO “about how we can harness the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI for the good of civilization.”
Netanyahu’s high-profile go to to the San Francisco Bay Area comes at a time when Musk is going through accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on his social media platform, whereas Netanyahu is confronting political opposition at residence and overseas. Protesters gathered early Monday outdoors the Fremont, California manufacturing unit the place Tesla makes its vehicles.
FILE – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, chairs the weekly cupboard assembly in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace says he’ll meet billionaire businessman Elon Musk throughout a visit to the United States. Netanyahu’s workplace declined to focus on the agenda for the assembly on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. But it comes at a time that Musk is going through accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on his social media platform X, previously often called Twitter. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool, File)
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Hundreds of hundreds of Israelis have taken half in 9 months of demonstrations towards Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul Israel’s judicial system. Those protests have unfold abroad, with teams of Israeli expats staging demonstrations throughout visits by Netanyahu and different members of his Cabinet.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League, a distinguished Jewish civil-rights group, has accused Musk of permitting antisemitism and hate speech to unfold on X, in half by amplifying the messages of neo-Nazis and white supremacists who need to ban the league by partaking with them on the platform.
Protesters rally outdoors Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., manufacturing unit as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans a go to with businessman Elon Musk on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
In a Sept. 4 put up, Musk claimed that the league was “trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic.” In different posts, he mentioned the league was chargeable for a 60% drop in income at X.
The group met this month with X’s chief govt, Linda Yaccarino. Both Musk and Yaccarino have not too long ago posted messages saying they oppose antisemitism.
From California, Netanyahu heads to New York, the place he’s scheduled to deal with the United Nations General Assembly and meet with President Joe Biden and different world leaders, his workplace mentioned. They embrace German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in addition to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
Netanyahu says the judicial overhaul plan is required to curb the powers of unelected judges, whom he and his allies say are liberal and overly interventionist. Critics say his plan is an influence seize that can destroy the nation’s system of checks and balances and push it towards autocratic rule.
Leading figures in Israel’s influential high-tech neighborhood have performed a distinguished position in the protests. They say weakening the judiciary will damage the nation’s enterprise local weather and drive away international funding. Israel’s forex, the shekel, has plunged in worth this 12 months in an indication of weakening international funding.
