Before Trump and Xi meet on Thursday and Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that both sides had already discussed setting up a new AI safety notification mechanism.
Not only has Trump steadily increased export controls that explicitly seek to block China from accessing technology to advance AI, but Congress is mulling bills that would cut the country off from more chips and hardware.
Some US-China experts told Ars that there were concerns that China might cancel talks, but China isn’t taking offense to Trump’s rhetoric.
Su Lian Jye, a chief analyst at a global technology research and advisory group called Omdia, told the South China Morning Post that the AI alerts may help “promote more transparency,” but it won’t make either side less wary of the other.
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This week, the US and China, the two world leaders on AI, started talks meant to keep the whole world safe from emerging safety risks.
Before Trump and Xi meet on Thursday and Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that both sides had already discussed setting up a new AI safety notification mechanism.
The proposal comes at a time when China may not be ready to trust the US to have AI safety conversations that aren’t about limiting China’s capabilities. Not only has Trump steadily increased export controls that explicitly seek to block China from accessing technology to advance AI, but Congress is mulling bills that would cut the country off from more chips and hardware. Adding to tensions, just two weeks ago, Trump’s Justice Department accused six of China’s leading AI makers of stealing from US frontier labs, which China has strongly disputed.
Some US-China experts told Ars that there were concerns that China might cancel talks, but China isn’t taking offense to Trump’s rhetoric. Even Truth Social posts where Trump insists that America must dominate China on AI—declaring “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!”
Sam Bresnick, a research fellow at a Georgetown University think tank called the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, monitors national security applications of AI and US-China tech competition.
Su Lian Jye, a chief analyst at a global technology research and advisory group called Omdia, told the South China Morning Post that the AI alerts may help “promote more transparency,” but it won’t make either side less wary of the other.
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