cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52188093
Cooperation between the two countries is seen as critical to managing risks such as cybersecurity incidents and loss of human control.
The idea of an official AI dialogue between the US and China was discussed in May when Trump met Xi in Beijing, but it was not formalised at the time.
Since then, the rivalry between the two AI superpowers has continued to simmer amid a polarising debate among leading AI figures over the threat posed by the technology and the need to slow down development to beef up safety measures.
The US has stepped up accusations that Chinese AI firms are stealing output from frontier American models, in a process known as distillation.
On Sept 8, three US government agencies, including the National Security Agency, formally accused six Chinese firms of “malicious campaigns”, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba, adding that this was likely done with “Chinese government awareness”.
China has rejected the accusation as “groundless”.
On the other hand, calls for independent safety evaluations and common global standards have grown more urgent following unprecedented cybersecurity incidents, such as the July hack of open-source AI platform Hugging Face by an autonomous swarm of 700 OpenAI agents.
Discussions around improving AI safety in the US have also been entangled with views of China as a strategic competitor.
China is doing much better on “AI safety.” Have you heard any Chinese company bragging about the cyber attacks it let its AI program run? US companies are celebrating their attacks and counting on America’s economic desperation to keep them in business and out of jail.
AI is basically the one ring. Just not quite sure who Sauron is yet.
