Why Trump and Xi Finally Agree on AI
China’s president is to arrive in the U.S. next week and many observers expect some sort of AI safety dialogue to take place.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping appear to be reaching an agreement on the development of artificial intelligence (AI). China is dismissing warnings from U.S. company Anthropic that AI development could lead to catastrophic consequences for humanity, which is convenient for Trump who believes that AI risks are a hoax.
Trump sees the United States as leading the AI race and emphasizes that it must emerge victorious to reap its benefits. He also claims that China will not stand in the way of AI's future. While China sees AI as a potential threat to its regime stability, it is moving forward with AI development at a rapid pace. Anthropic, a U.S. AI company, has clashed with the Pentagon on moral grounds and CEO Dario Amodei is a China hawk.
Amodei has warned that China's AI labs are using Anthropic's agents without authorization to train their own models, which could embarrass the Chinese government. China's intelligence chief Chen Yixin has stated that China will speed up AI development, integrate it into everything, and ensure that the Communist Party controls it politically and ideologically.
Both Trump and Xi want to accelerate their AI buildout and are not willing to accept limits imposed by the other. Xi is particularly concerned about potential impacts of AI on regime security. The U.S. is open to discussions on avoiding shared risks and bifurcation of their two AI systems, but AI researchers may find this comment too late.
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