US and China should stay clear-eyed on AI cooperation and competition: Bessent

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Bessent says US and China should balance AI cooperation and competition ahead of Trump-Xi summit in Shenzhen. Read more at straitstimes.com.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will travel to China next week for US President Donald Trump’s third meeting in 2026 with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

NEW YORK - The United States and China should harbor no illusions about their differences on artificial intelligence as they navigate cooperation to mitigate the technology's risks while competing for AI supremacy, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Nov 10.

Bessent, who will travel to China next week for US President Donald Trump's third meeting in 2026 with Chinese President Xi Jinping, said in prepared remarks to the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York that he wanted to "build a constructive relationship on the basis of balance and reciprocity”.

The meeting in Shenzhen, to be held on the sidelines of the Nov 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders summit, will advance a new bilateral dialogue on "superintelligence", or SI, Bessent said, using the Trump administration's preferred term for the technology.

The dialogue is meant to guard against shared risks and "prevent a misunderstanding between our two systems”, Bessent said.

"We also expect to exchange best practices for evaluating and testing advanced models before their release, and for keeping human judgment firmly in command of this technology," he said, adding the two sides had agreed to establish a direct channel for alerting each other to serious incidents.

Trump and Xi agreed on the new AI alert system during their previous meeting at the White House in September, but Trump at the time also said he was reluctant to add new guardrails because he wanted to preserve US leadership.

"As SI advances, so will the need to engage in new areas of risk management — and to demonstrate how two nations can reconcile the demands of competition with the responsibilities of leadership," Bessent said.

"As we do so, we should harbor no illusions about the differences between the United States and China.

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