Xi addresses AI as summit with Trump kicks off

Xi says US, China have responsibility to keep AI under human control

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday the U.S. and China have an obligation to manage the development of artificial intelligence as “leading nations” in the industry.

“We have both the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good and ensure that the development of AI is always under human control and serves the well-being of the people,” Xi said in the White House’s Grand Foyer.

Xi was welcomed to the White House on Thursday for the first state visit from a Chinese leader in more than a decade.

Concerns about AI’s capabilities loomed large ahead of the meeting between the leaders of the two superpowers, as researchers offered dire warnings about the technology’s risks to humanity.

For his part, Trump said he and Xi will discuss AI, which Trump has taken to calling “super intelligence.”

“The decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come,” he said.

Earlier Thursday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that it would be a “big topic of discussion, but I want to leave it exactly where it is.”

“That is China’s position also. Our guardrail is the DOJ,” Trump wrote, referring to the Department of Justice .

The president has repeatedly said the only guardrail needed is the department, despite many industry officials calling for new safeguards.

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Democrats on the House Select Committee on China are urging President Trump to make AI and its risks a “central topic” in his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.), who serves as ranking member of the panel, led a letter to the president Tuesday, arguing that “diplomacy and open lines of communication on AI risks are an imperative” in the wake of recent warnings about the technology.

The 11 Democrats requested a briefing following Trump’s meeting with Xi in Washington, suggesting that “[j]ust as humans must be kept in the loop of this technology, Congress must be kept in the loop of your diplomacy.”

Khanna said in a statement to The Hill on Thursday that Republicans and Democrats “agree we need US-China AI safeguards and bold investments in verification technologies.”

“It’s President Trump who doesn’t,” he added. “We need to follow the model of President Reagan and [Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev on nuclear arms controls and ensure humans never lose control of AI.”

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