Trump and Xi Set Up a Hotline in Case AI Starts Acting Up
Wed · September 30 · 09:09 · #plugoShots 207 · AI × geopolitics
The US and China are competing over chips, models, data centers, and the world’s best engineers.
But after the Trump–Xi summit, it turns out there is at least one thing even the two biggest AI rivals would rather discuss together: what to do when AI becomes a problem.
Following the summit, Washington and Beijing agreed to launch a dedicated China–US AI Dialogue focused on the risks and opportunities of the technology. The next round is expected in November. The two sides also agreed to establish a separate bilateral communication channel for AI incidents → China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Until very recently, the US–China AI relationship looked mostly like this: chips → restrictions → compute → who gets ahead first.
Now another question is appearing alongside that rivalr: what happens if the technology both countries are racing to dominate starts creating problems for both of them?
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Xi put it fairly directly: the US and China are the world’s two leading AI powers, and both therefore have a responsibility to ensure that the technology remains under human control.
Trump also supported continued dialogue and cooperation on AI during the summit — even though Washington and Beijing still have very different approaches to domestic AI regulation.
SIGNAL
This may be the moment when AI definitively becomes geopolitics. First, governments competed over models and chips.
Now they are starting to build diplomacy for AI incidents.
Not shared models.
Not shared rules.
Not even necessarily a shared definition of risk.
For now, at least, they have each other’s phone number.
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