The U.S. wants a new warning system with China for when something goes wrong with AI and becomes a national security threat. The idea came up during talks in New York between top U.S. and Chinese officials ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington this week.
“We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Sunday after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng.
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Bessent said the U.S. has proposed what he calls a “notification mechanism” so the world’s two biggest AI powers can alert each other to serious incidents.
“Well, the notification for, whether there are incidents, whether, there has been something that rises up to, a national security level from, from AI because we think that, just just like when any cross-border activity that moving from opaque, to more transparency between the number one and the number two AI powers in the world is very important,” Bessent said.
Bessent said the two sides agreed to keep the AI conversation going. Chinese state media confirmed AI was discussed, but did not mention the U.S. proposal.
Board of Trade
The U.S. and China also agreed to establish a new “Board of Trade.” Trump and Xi first discussed the idea during a meeting in Beijing in May.
“Today those notions have become reality,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said.
Greer said the two sides are still discussing which nonsensitive goods could qualify for lower tariffs, potentially including Chinese consumer products and U.S. energy, agricultural goods and medical devices.
Greer said the goal is to identify goods that can be “traded in a balanced way, and create a kind of ballast for the relationship.”
