Trump and Xi to Discuss A.I. Risks and Competition at US-China Summit
U.S.and Chinese officials are setting up a dialogue about artificial intelligence and a hotline to report national security risks from the technology.
The United States is lodging criticisms with China over its companies’ copying American A.I.models.
And a state dinner hosting China’s leader on Thursday is expected to be attended by some of America’s biggest A.I.and tech titans, including executives from OpenAI, Google and Nvidia.A.I.
is front and center as officials from the United States and China meet this week in New York and Washington.But with technological competition between the countries so intense, and little consensus within the United States about the path forward on A.I.
regulation, experts do not expect much headway.Concerns are mounting in the United States about potential threats from A.I., after warnings from A.I.researchers and incidents when A.I.
agents escaped their training environments and hacked websites.Many U.S.
officials worry that A.I.could enhance China’s ability to launch cyberattacks on the United States or crack military codes.
Some believe the Trump administration should be doing more to limit China’s access to American chips and other A.I.technology.But President Trump has taken a laissez-faire approach.
The only guardrails A.I.needs are a “strong and smart president,” he has said.“Whoever wins AI, WINS! We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I’m going to keep it that way!” Mr.
Trump wrote on social media on Monday.“I’m not going to stifle Growth, of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself.”Mr.
Trump has opposed state regulation of A.I.And he has largely supported Nvidia’s selling the computer chips that fuel A.I.
models abroad, relaxing restrictions the Biden administration set on providing the technology to China and other nations.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.T...