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A global AI safety strategy depends on U.S.-China cooperation. They each see the other as the problem
"A formal agreement or consensus may be near impossible, but they do not need to go that far," said Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs. "Trump and Xi just need to create political space by acknowledging AI poses risks to both countries." China and the U.S. are increasingly at odds on AI Trump has pushed back on calls to strengthen regulation of the technology, claiming that doing so could cause China to eclipse America on AI. He has repeatedly declared that the nation that leads on the technology "wins." "We are leading China, and all others," Trump said Monday on social media. The two countries are moving the technology forward in different ways. U.S. companies are chasing AI frontiers with computing power supported by cutting-edge chips and the country's rapidly expanding data center infrastructure. China is pursuing wide global adoption of its open-source, more affordable models. Chinese AI models have made major advances and gained traction with American companies even as U.S.-led restrictions bar China from getting the world's most advanced AI chips. While most American frontier models are closed-source, with their...
