Hong Kong · China · Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. · U.S. Treasury · NBC News Tech
U.S. proposes exchanging AI safety alerts with China, Bessent confirms
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HONG KONG, The United States has proposed a new AI safety notification mechanism for President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to consider at their summit in Washington this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, amid global concern over whether the world’s two leading AI powers can work together to contain the technology’s potential dangers.
Key facts
- Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and China’s chief trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, did not comment to reporters as they left the talks at JPMorganChase headquarters
- Speaking to reporters after daylong talks in New York with Chinese officials, Bessent said the two sides had discussed setting up a new U.S.-China AI dialogue that would include a mechanism
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- U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters that AI talks would not affect U.S. export controls on advanced chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment that have hindered Chinese AI
Summary
Speaking to reporters after daylong talks in New York with Chinese officials, Bessent said the two sides had discussed setting up a new U.S.-China AI dialogue that would include a mechanism for alerting each other to AI-related incidents that could affect national security. “We think that like with any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the number one and the number two AI powers in the world is important,” he said, adding that the two sides had agreed to meet again on the AI issue.