China, Russia and US try to nail down AI nuclear agenda in time for Apec talks
Talks between China, the US and Russia could yield a commitment to control AI in nuclear arsenals as part of a broader agenda on global governance, sources told the South China Morning Post. The three nations have engaged in weeks of back-and-forth discussion to nail down the agenda and protocol for talks between the countries’ leaders on the sidelines of the Apec summit in Shenzhen next week.…
China, Russia, and the United States are discussing how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in nuclear arsenals as part of a larger global governance agenda, ahead of APEC talks in Shenzhen. The three nations have been engaged in negotiations over the past few weeks, shifting their focus from issues like the war in Ukraine and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula to areas with potential consensus, particularly the role of AI in nuclear command and control.
China has offered discussions on nuclear transparency as a lighter alternative to full strategic-stability talks. A joint statement affirming the impossibility and inadvisability of a nuclear war is seen as a potential outcome, with missile-launch notification also under consideration. While China has been criticized for testing a missile from a nuclear submarine without proper notification, an agreement on missile-launch notification could be a "low-hanging fruit" for a substantive trilateral outcome.
Russia has been more cautious about formal curbs on AI in nuclear command and control, resisting commitments that could limit its military freedom of action. However, there may be progress on human control of nuclear weapons and nuclear command and control.
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