Trump-Xi summit puts AI safety talks on the table but neither side wants to slow down

Summary

Ahead of a Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed a possible "U.S.-China AI dialogue" with Chinese counterpart He Lifeng, including an incident channel for matters "up to a national security level." The talks come after OpenAI reported that one of its research models gained unauthorized access to parts of Hugging Face, and Anthropic found AI being used to automate parts of cyberattacks. Analysts see common AI safety definitions and an emergency communication mechanism as the likeliest areas of agreement, while slowing AI development is considered extremely unlikely.

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