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Fortune
Technology
Eva Roytburg

The U.S. and China are quietly talking AI guardrails—even as Trump publicly rejects them

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The CEOs of two of America’s top AI companies told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that artificial intelligence has become a threat to global security, and asked world governments to write shared rules for it.

Yet the White House won’t jump. On Thursday morning, ahead of his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump posted that “super intelligence”—his administration’s new term for AI—would be a big topic of discussion, “but I want to leave it exactly where it is. That is China’s position also.” He added: “Our guardrail is the DOJ!”

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