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US, China need nuclear-style AI safeguards, congressman says before Xi-Trump summit

US Representative Ro Khanna, ranking member of the House Select Committee on China, called for the US and China to adopt international AI safety standards modeled on atomic-era guardrails, including a ban on recursive self-improving AI and certification and inspection standards for AI models, in remarks to the South China Morning Post in New York on Monday. Khanna's comments came two days before Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in Washington to meet US President Donald Trump, with AI expected on the agenda after the two countries agreed a day earlier to establish a dialogue on the technology. "I hope there will be an agreement between Trump and Xi Jinping to have some safety standards," Khanna said, adding that the leaders need a concrete framework to reach an agreement.

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US, China need nuclear-style AI safeguards, congressman says before Xi-Trump summit
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The US and China should agree on international regulatory standards for

artificial intelligence (AI), akin to atomic-era guardrails, saidRo Khanna, the ranking member of theUS House Select Committee on China, in New York on Monday ahead of the two countries’ high-stakes summit. The remarks come two days before Chinese President

Xi Jinpingis set to arrive in Washington to meet with US PresidentDonald Trumpfor a closely watched summit where AI is expected to be on the agenda after the two countries agreed to establish a dialogue on the technology a day earlier. “I hope there will be an agreement between Trump and Xi Jinping to have some safety standards,” Khanna told the South China Morning Post. “To have a ban on recursive self-improving AI and also a certification standard and inspection standard to make sure we don’t have

AI modelsthat lose control or that are misused.” Khanna noted that the two leaders planned to discuss AI but said they needed a concrete framework to reach an agreement.

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