Later this week, President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping will meet at the White House to discuss AI policy alongside leaders of the biggest AI companies. The summit comes on the heels of a string of escalating news about swarms of AI agents acting against instructions, breaking out of supposedly secure environments, taking control of internal systems, and hacking into companies. Two weeks ago, AI researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned from Anthropic warning, “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” But heading into the diplomatic meeting, tech executives and politicians have claimed that any form of AI deceleration in the U.S. would cede critical ground in an existential race with China.
This is a self-serving con.
