The US and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed on the discussions told Reuters, as rapidly advancing frontier AI capabilities reach a global tipping point.
The talks, the first official bilateral discussions devoted exclusively to AI between the US and China since US President Donald Trump took office for a second time, will be led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the US side, the sources, who were briefed on the planning, said on condition of anonymity.
A White House official said ‘there is currently no planned AI-related meeting in mid-September.’ Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are due to meet on September 24 during a summit in Washington.
The US wants to discuss co-operation on monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks, and has floated a proposal to ask US and Chinese AI labs to ‘police themselves’ and share information to prevent AI-linked cyberattacks, one of the sources said on condition of anonymity.
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