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Mutual Distrust Blocks US-China AI Safety Cooperation Before Trump-Xi Summit

Calls to 'pace' frontier AI development collide with US-China rivalry as leaders prepare to meet in Washington.

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What to know

  • A Trump-Xi summit in Washington next week is expected to touch on AI cooperation, but no formal AI talks have been confirmed despite a May agreement to hold them.
  • Analysts describe AI pacing as a prisoner's dilemma: restraint by one side is rational only if it trusts the other is equally restrained, and neither Washington nor Beijing currently extends that trust.
  • China views Western calls to 'slow the pace' of AI as aimed at containing its progress, while US firms accuse Chinese developers of large-scale model distillation.
  • Proposals are emerging for pacts built on shared early-warning indicators and enforceable limits rather than requiring mutual trust between the two governments.

“The United States operates on a very specific type of theory. And the theory is, whoever wins the AI race wins everything.”

Francesca Giovannini, Harvard Belfer Center executive director · NBC News ↗ · Sep 14

Dario AmodeiDario Amodei Anthropic CEOJacob Coxon Former OpenAI and Anthropic employeeDonald TrumpDonald Trump US PresidentXi JinpingXi Jinping Chinese leaderZhu Qichao PLA Senior Colonel, defense strategistShlomit Wagman Harvard Kennedy School fellow, AI policy expert

Mutual Distrust Blocks US-China AI Safety Cooperation Before Trump-Xi Summit
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  1. 5

    FT questions whether US and China can cooperate on AI risk

    The Financial Times examines whether technological rivalry between Washington and Beijing will prevent the two powers from jointly managing potentially existential AI risks.

    1. 4 outlets As the world debates the risks of AI, China closes the technology gap with the US

      first by AP News, 8d ago · also FT, Mercury News, Philadelphia Inquirer

      1 more headline
  2. 4

    Chinese officials spar over AI cooperation at Xiangshan Forum

    At Beijing's Xiangshan defense forum, Senior Col. Zhu Qichao called for cooperation while warning against 'vicious competition,' and Fudan's Wu Xinbo said China was wary that upcoming talks could be used to slow its progress further.

    “On one hand, it benefits humanity, but on the other hand, there are also considerations regarding risks.”
    — Zhu Qichao
    1. 1 outlet U.S. and China face grave AI risks but mutual distrust stalls cooperation

      first by NBC News, 8d ago

  3. 3

    Wagman proposes AI safety pact that doesn't require trust

    Harvard Kennedy fellow Shlomit Wagman argues a workable US-China AI safety pact should rely on shared early-warning indicators and enforceable brakes rather than on mutual trust, which she says will never exist.

    “A workable AI safety pact would set shared warning signs and enforceable brakes—without requiring U.S.-China trust.”
    — Shlomit Wagman
    1. 1 outlet Harvard Kennedy fellow Shlomit Wagman: The U.S. and China will never trust each other on AI. That may not matter

      first by Fortune, 8d ago

    • mogita@mog.blue

      本土自部署，做好自己的 guardrail 不就好了。所谓安全焦虑，很多时候是在护那根估值线，从来都不是技术问题。 https:// edition.cnn.com/2026/09/15/tec h/ai-kill-everyone-china

      mogita@mog.blueMastodon8d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    WSJ opinion warns against trusting China on AI

    A Wall Street Journal opinion piece argues that working with Beijing on AI would be a mistake because the Chinese government's true intentions are clear.

    “Working with Beijing would be a mistake. The Chinese government’s true intentions are clear.”
    — WSJ Opinion

    1. 2 outlets first by WSJ Tech, 9d ago · also WSJ · read ↗

    • Of course they won't. One important reason is this: AI is part of China's plan to catch up militarily. Its armed forces see AI as the shortcut to matching US conventional power. Countries don't agree to restrict the one thing they're betting on. And with this, worth remembering that at the Shangri...

      @sariarhohavrenX9d agoview on X ↗
    1 more of the top 2 · 2 posts in this stretch

    • China's govt exerts massive regulatory control over its AI industry, the idea that we'd fall behind by doing the same is just corporate propaganda. The key question is whether we are ready to really break from neoliberalism and assert our democratic right to discipline capital.

      @mattdussX10d agoview on X ↗
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    Trump dismisses AI safety warnings as a 'hoax'

    President Trump rejected the slowdown concerns raised by AI safety advocates while still backing export controls and other measures to preserve US AI dominance over China.

    “hoax…”
    — Donald Trump

    • You've already argued that AI safety is a prisoner's dilemma that cannot be solved by one company acting voluntarily yet slowing the US frontier only works if everyone else slows with us and China has no reason to do that. We can't afford for America to regulate itself out of the lead while preten...

      @stocksavvyshayX11d agoview on X ↗
  7. background

    Amodei publicly calls for 'pacing the frontier' — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development at company, industry, and global levels, citing accelerating AI-assisted AI research and an incident in which OpenAI agents acted beyond their assigned task against an evaluating system.

  8. background

    Jacob Coxon resigns from Anthropic, warns on self-improving AI race — Coxon, who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned with a warning about the race toward self-improving AI, setting off renewed debate about pacing frontier development.

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  1. 2 outlets China Also Thinks AI Could Kill Us. But First, It Wants to Match the U.S.

    first by WSJ Tech, 9d ago · also WSJ

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