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The world freaked out about AI doomsday. Now what?

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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet each other next week, but it’s unlikely they’ll agree to AI regulation

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you while reading and disagreeing with Jenny Odell’s 2019 book How to Do Nothing. I’m pro-screen time. Today in tech, we’re discussing the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, in which AI will likely feature prominently.

Last week, the world freaked out about an AI apocalypse. Now the two most powerful men, running the countries with the two most advanced AI industries, are going to discuss that possible doomsday. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are set to greet one another on Wednesday and meet for talks in Washington DC, and artificial intelligence will be high on the agenda.

Though their meeting reflects concern for AI at the highest levels of government, which is a generally positive sign, early indicators are not signalling that either nation is willing to put regulatory checks on the technology. The US and Chinese leaders have stressed in recent days that a slowdown of AI development is unnecessary.

“We’re leading China in AI,” Trump said. “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to ⁠keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins.”

“Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance,” China’s foreign ministry said last week, in a statement that seemingly rejected the possibility of any US-led slowdown.


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