{"slug": "trump-and-xi-should-align-on-artificial-intelligence", "title": "Trump and Xi should align on artificial Intelligence", "summary": "Ahead of the U.S.-China summit in Washington this month, an op-ed argues that Presidents Trump and Xi should reframe their discussions on artificial intelligence away from competitive grievances and toward the existential risks posed by the technology. The piece, published from Geneva, contends that current talks centered on safety and control rest on the unexamined premise that AI remains a controllable tool, preventing questions about what happens when AI becomes more than a tool.", "body_md": "GENEVA – When Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in Washington this month, AI will be near the top of the agenda. If they view the issue through the lens of technological rivalry and mutual suspicion, reaching any kind of understanding will be nearly impossible. But there is a way to reframe their thinking about the technology that puts them on the same side — and marks the first step toward confronting the existential challenge AI may well pose.\n\nThe current agenda for the U.S.-China summit appears centered on keeping powerful AI models safe and out of the hands of terrorists and criminals. But crowding this goal are the two sides’ competitive grievances, from semiconductor restrictions (on the Chinese side) to open-source models and unauthorized distillation (on the U.S. side).\n\nAll of these issues rest on a single, unexamined premise: that AI is a tool which is, and will remain, under control. This premise limits the conversation to questions such as, “How does my side gain a competitive edge in AI?” and “Who gets to access, let alone control, the technology?” Questions outside this premise — in particular, “What happens when the tool becomes something more?” — cannot be asked.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-and-xi-should-align-on-artificial-intelligence", "canonical_source": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/08/world/china-us-ai-security-ties/", "published_at": "2026-09-08 06:07:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 08:30:13.636758+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Xi Jinping", "Donald Trump"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-and-xi-should-align-on-artificial-intelligence", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-and-xi-should-align-on-artificial-intelligence.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-and-xi-should-align-on-artificial-intelligence.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-and-xi-should-align-on-artificial-intelligence.jsonld"}}