"The guiding light, the bedrock here, needs to be compliance with international law. That's what we keep talking about, is the rules-based order."
Speaking with Fox News, Lutnick said he expects the President to stand firm when that 90 day pause expires at the start of July.A key trade deal would be with China, who US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said has "not been a reliable partner" and claimed it was holding back products in the global supply chain.
The president's top trade advisers presented a united front in their appearances on separate US morning television programmes on Sunday.They remained steadfast on the tariff agenda, which has faced"Tariffs are not going away," Lutnick said in response to the court cases.
He added that the US "could sign lots of deals now" but the Trump administration is working to "make them better"."You're going to see over the next couple of weeks, really, first class deals for the American worker," he said..
And on the expiration of the 90 day pause, Lutnick said: "I think that's the deadline, and the President's just going to determine what rates people have if they can't get a deal done".
When the pause expires, in theory it would enact sweeping tariffs on countries across the globe.Prof Seth, the author of a book on consciousness, Being You, worries that we may be rushing headlong into a society that is being rapidly reshaped by the sheer pace of technological change without sufficient knowledge about the science, or thought about the consequences.
"We take it as if the future has already been written; that there is an inevitable march to a superhuman replacement," he says."We did not have these conversations enough with the rise of social media, much to our collective detriment. But with AI, it is not too late. We can decide what we want."
But there are some in the tech sector who believe that the AI in our computers and phones may already be conscious, and we should treat them as such.Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine in 2022, after he argued that AI chatbots could feel things and potentially suffer.