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A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready
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As US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington for a state dinner at the White House on Thursday, AI has become a top priority.
Key facts
- As US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington for a state dinner at the White House on Thursday, AI has become a top priority
- The push for Bessent has come in part because the AI notification system is seen as something akin to the US-China dialogue between former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and former Chinese vice
- Chief among them is a US proposal to establish an AI notification system with China, akin to the Cold War hotline with Moscow, which would allow each country to alert the other about national — This is an edition of Hugo Lowell’s Inner Loop newsletter
Summary
Chief among them is a US proposal to establish an AI notification system with China, akin to the Cold War hotline with Moscow, which would allow each country to alert the other about national security issues related to AI. But for all the high-level progress, Trump administration officials tell Inner Loop they expect it to still take several weeks to finalize an agreement, even if they are optimistic that the hotline could be in place before the year’s end. There are several parts that need to be formalized in more detail, including establishing benchmarks on what kind of incident rises to the level of a national security issue, which remains unclear, as well as explicit sign-on from China, which has been noncommittal.