Trump, Xi to discuss AI safety as rogue bots and Nvidia scandal loom over US-China talks

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Jitters over the risks of AI have mostly stemmed from incidents at US labs, but evidence is also growing of worrying behaviour from Chinese models ...

AI bots going rogue and humans using the technology for harm will likely be on the agenda when Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet next week, with the Nvidia scandal hanging over the talks on AI safety.

The US and Chinese president are set to discuss a tech crisis hotline at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, as experts worldwide stress-test artificial intelligence models to see if they will deceive or disobey users, or divulge how to build a bioweapon.

Threatening to steal the leaders' thunder is Jensen Huang's resignation as boss of US AI chip titan Nvidia after an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.

But the scandal is unlikely to "dominate the agenda" or affect Trump and Xi's personal relationship, predicted Dylan Loh of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

The leaders have found a way to work together "where they differ, compete and pursue their goals that may be at odds with each other, but cooperate where they can and where they must", Loh told AFP.

Jitters over the risks of AI have mostly stemmed from incidents at US labs, but evidence is also growing of worrying behaviour from Chinese models.

Some insiders say Chinese AI is not yet sophisticated enough to spark alarm over going rogue.

But despite trailing the US frontier, there are still Chinese models "at the level of capability that they can cause some real trouble", Brookings Institution fellow Kyle Chan told AFP.

Trump has repeatedly rejected calls to deliberately slow the development of America's most poweful -- and potentially dangerous -- AI systems, arguing it could help China get ahead in the sensitive sector.

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