Artificial Intelligence
US and China set up AI incident channel
The United States and China agreed to create a dialogue on AI risks and benefits and a separate communication channel for incidents after a summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
- Donald Trump and Xi Jinping concluded a summit on Friday.
- The White House said the United States and China would set up a communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents.
- A White House fact sheet said the two sides established a US-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue to exchange views on AI risks and benefits.
- The fact sheet said the next exchange was due by November.
- Xi said the two countries had the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good and keep it under human control.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping ended a summit on Friday, with artificial intelligence among the issues discussed. The White House said the two countries would create a communication channel for AI incidents.
The White House also said in a fact sheet that the two sides had set up a US-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue. It said the leaders had agreed to use SI rather than AI, and that the next exchange would take place by November.
Before the summit, Trump said SI would be a major topic of discussion and posted that he wanted to leave it there. Xi said the United States and China should manage their rivalry and keep AI under human control.
Xi made those remarks at the White House on Thursday, according to the article. The report did not describe any further details of the incident channel or the dialogue beyond the White House statements.
Named in this story
People
- Donald Trump
- met Xi Jinping and discussed AI
- Xi Jinping
- met Donald Trump and called for AI to stay under human control
Organisations
- US-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue
- was established to exchange views on AI risks and benefits
Governments and agencies
- White House
- said the two countries would set up AI channels and issued a fact sheet
- United States
- agreed with China to create AI communication arrangements
- China
- agreed with the United States to create AI communication arrangements
How the source tells it
The article was a plain, official-sounding diplomatic report with no clear emotive framing.
No emotive framing was found in the original.