U.S. proposes exchanging AI safety alerts with China, Bessent says
Bessent said the two sides discussed a formal AI dialogue and an incident line for safety alerts after recent frontier-model hacks.
- 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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Xi urges US-China military dialogue and warns against confrontation
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for closer communication with the United States, warning that both countries would lose from conflict and confrontation.Xi said during his US visit, according...
United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday that China and the United States share the same position against restrictions on artificial intelligence.
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US President Donald Trump does not expect to set security limits on AI during the summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, he did say that AI will be an important topic of discussion during the talks with his Chinese counterpart.
For Xi Jinping and Donald Trump to discuss the AI threat is an advance. But despite the consensus, mistrust runs deep: China suspects that the United States is actually trying to curb them.
Xi Jinping is with Donald Trump in Washington until Friday. This time, the focus of the summit is not the trade war, but the AI armaments of the great powers – and the question of how to control each other at all.
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