Bessent: US suggesting AI alert system with China ahead of Trump-Xi talks

A hotline for AI doom sounds urgent right up until you notice it's timed to soften the room before he sits down with Xi.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the U.S. is proposing a notification system between Washington and Beijing on AI amid growing concerns about the technology’s risks to humanity. The system, called the “U.S.-China AI dialogue,” would create a mechanism for the two superpowers to communicate when there are incidents that rise to “a national security…

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