Top US and Chinese officials person discussed creating a caller "notification mechanism" for AI incidents that could impact nationalist security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters connected Sunday.
Bessent made the comments aft what helium called "successful" talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng successful New York.
The gathering came arsenic US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are owed to clasp a acme successful Washington aboriginal this week.
AI has travel nether aggravated scrutiny successful caller days aft researchers warned of the potential risks posed by the technology and immoderate of the industry's astir precocious illustration figures called for developers to instrumentality a much cautious approach.
"We deliberation that, conscionable similar with immoderate cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to much transparency betwixt the fig 1 and the fig 2 AI powers successful the satellite is precise important," Bessent told reporters aft the talks.
He said the gathering besides covered different topics, including plans to "operationalise" a process to place imaginable tariff cuts connected goods called the Board of Trade.
A truce successful the tariffs warfare betwixt the world's 2 biggest economies is owed to expire connected 10 November.
The BBC has contacted the Chinese embassy successful the US for comment.
Chinese authorities quality bureau Xinhua said the 2 sides had "candid, in-depth and constructive exchanges connected cardinal economical and commercialized issues", noting that they had discussed AI.
Bessent said successful a station connected X connected Sunday that the talks "help laic the groundwork for President Trump to beforehand America's economical interests and present results for the American people."
The US and China are locked successful a contention to predominate the AI and exertion industries.
In caller days Washington has faced calls to dilatory down the improvement of AI implicit fears abouts its imaginable antagonistic interaction connected humanity.
Trump has largely dismissed those concerns, arguing that determination are capable policies astir AI and that the US cannot suffer its borderline to China.
He said earlier this period "whoever wins successful AI, wins."
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