The AI Safety Dilemma Facing Trump and Xi

Trump’s AI race with China could become the biggest mistake of our time

In less than two weeks, President Donald Trump will welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington. Trump says AI will be a major topic of their S...

Trump's AI race with China could become the biggest mistake of our time

Trump's summit with Xi Jinping faces a new AI safety dilemma as Anthropic, OpenAI and other leaders warn the China AI race is outpacing human control of frontier systems.

The AI safety dilemma facing Trump and Xi

President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will have a rare area of potential common interest when they meet in Washington on Sept. 24: preventing artificial intelligence from becoming dangerously uncontrollable. Why it matters: U.S. and Chinese experts are already exploring ways to manage AI risks. But Washington and Beijing still disagree over what the biggest threats are — and the race for technological supremacy is making it increa…