Trump’s top science adviser visited Beijing. What does that mean for AI?
Beijing is vague on whether AI cooperation was on the summit’s agenda, even as experts urge collaboration on common problems
“China has always advocated that all parties jointly promote the development of artificial intelligence in an open, inclusive, beneficial and good-for-all direction,” he said on Friday afternoon, after Air Force One had taken off from Beijing Capital International Airport.
The international community hoped that the United States and China could reach a consensus on AI governance and strategic stability, Xiao Junyong, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology’s law school, wrote in an article published by the state-run Beijing Review on Wednesday.
“Both the US and China lead in AI models, computing power and ecosystems, yet share challenges like hallucinations, bias, misuse and cyberattacks. For high-impact AI systems, they can cooperate on safety, ethics, and deepfake governance.”