The US has projected a direct conduit alongside China to notify the two governments of important AI-related national safety incidents equal as their AI rivalry intensifies.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the recommendation was made during talks in New York on Sunday alongside Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng. Their conversation came onward of President Donald Trump's summit alongside Chinese chief Xi Jinping in Washington on Thursday.
"The US has projected that we have a notification scheme between the two countries, and we desire a shared imagination of average goals and average threats," Bessent told reporters.
He stated the recommendation would be part of a new "US-China AI dialogue" focused on national safety incidents involving AI.
"We think that, fair akin alongside any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to additional transparency between the figure one and the figure two AI powers in the earth is extremely important," Bessent said.
The recommendation comes amid a broader conversation complete AI safety. In latest weeks, notable AI researchers, executives, and several lawmakers have renewed warnings concerning increasingly capable AI systems, arguing that governments should activity together to decrease the hazard of catastrophic misuse.
China stopped abbreviated of publically endorsing the proposal. State news agency Xinhua described the talks as "candid, in-depth and constructive" and confirmed the two sides discussed AI, but did not citation the projected notification mechanism.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated export controls on advanced AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment were not part of the AI discussions.
Instead, he stated the talks additionally advanced activity on a distinct example to acknowledge "non-sensitive" products that could obtain distinct care in forthcoming commerce disputes.
"There is a earth anywhere you have a comparatively small subset of American and Chinese products that can be traded in a stable way, that are non-sensitive, that in the future, as commerce actions arrive up, we can regard them as a category unto themselves,"" Greer said.
The recommendation comes as the two countries battle complete advanced AI models and semiconductors.
Washington has tightened restrictions on exports of advanced AI chips and chipmaking tools to China, during accusing Chinese AI firms of using foremost American models to train competing systems. Beijing denies the allegations.
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