U.S. proposes exchanging AI safety alerts with China, Bessent says
- On Saturday, President Donald Trump dismissed AI safety concerns as a "HOAX" and announced creation of a new government "AI Force" to target "BAD" actors while vowing to protect the industry from "destruction."
- Trump's push for "Operation Warp Speed"-style data center construction faces mounting internal pressure from executives like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who warns rapid development risks catastrophic infrastructure hacks and biological threats.
- A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll shows 65% of Americans oppose local data center construction; Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro have implemented stricter oversight citing environmental concerns.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent meets Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York this weekend to set the agenda for Trump's Washington visit with President Xi Jinping of China starting Wednesday.
- Beijing frames AI as a vital pillar of "comprehensive national power" required to surpass the United States in the global race, while Trump argues that slowing American innovation would cede strategic advantage to China.
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Beijing and Washington disagree on many subjects. But on one theme, they are remarkably united, on the eve of the summit between Presidents Trump and Xi in the American capital: artificial intelligence. "It is a race in which both countries want to be number one," says political scientist Elly Rostoum. Rostoum previously worked for American intelligence agencies and now teaches at Johns Hopkins University. According to her, the harmful aspects …
According to Axios, a "hot line" is being planned between the United States and China in the spirit of the Cold War.
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