The U.S. and China will hold talks on artificial intelligence (AI) in September, according to reports. Both sides appear increasingly concerned by the risks they now face, including that of each other’s AI ‘frontier models.’
Such talks, floated during the Trump-Xi summit in May, will likely take place prior to Chinese president Xi Jinping’s planned September 24th U.S. visit, with U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent expected to play a leading role. Bessent appears vexed by intellectual property/copyright disputes, telling Fox Business Network on Tuesday, July 21st:
We are finding watermarks of our U.S. large language models on many of the Chinese models, and… that’s unacceptable.
Echoing Pope Leo XIV, President Xi has focused on the bigger picture, countering military and workplace AI risks by calling for a ‘Human-Centric’ approach to AI.
