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The AI Safety Dilemma Facing Trump and Xi
Leading AI executives are urging baseline safeguards as analysts say any Trump-Xi deal is unlikely to produce an enforceable mechanism.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet at the White House next week amid mounting pressure from tech leaders to "pace the frontier" of artificial intelligence development.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued to "slow the pace" of AI labs to ensure human control, a position backed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk; Trump rejected the desire to limit model capabilities.
Anthropic's report this month linked Chinese and Russian actors to Claude's misuse for weapons software and espionage, while Beijing spy chief Chen Yixin noted the Chinese Communist Party views AI as a regime security threat.
Ryan Fedasiuk, a former State Department official now at the American Enterprise Institute, cautioned that experts do not expect an enforceable mechanism to emerge from the summit despite serious mitigation efforts.
The United States and China remain locked in a two-state sprint for AI dominance, with the rest of the world watching from the sidelines as extreme distrust shapes the technological era.
Beijing is fast approaching the US technological frontier precisely when industry leaders themselves warn that artificial intelligence can cause a catastrophe. One week after the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the US and China are at a crossroads, between slowing down and allowing the rival to gain advantage and the need to establish common rules for a technology that nobody truly controls