“The U.S. is open to discussing shared risks with China in upcoming AI talks this weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells [Maria Curi] and me,” Axios reporter Marc Caputo said in a Wednesday post on X.
Caputo shared a link to a paywalled report on Axios.
Curi said in a Wednesday post on X that Bessent’s comments signal potential engagement on AI between the U.S. and China, though a major breakthrough safety cooperation between the competing countries remains a tall order.
Bessent told Axios, per the report, “we are open to discussions on avoiding shared risks and avoiding bifurcation of our two systems. We expect our discussions to cover both open and closed weight models.”
Reuters reported Wednesday that Bessent said Tuesday (Sept. 15) that he will meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this week and that President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week.
PYMNTS reported Wednesday that there is a debate in Silicon Valley over the need to slow the release of new AI models due to company concerns over safety risks. An essay proposing such a move by Anthropic CEO and Co-Founder Dario Amodei titled “We Must Pace the Frontier“ was published Sept. 12.
It was reported Sept. 11 that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a companywide meeting that the firm was considering slowing down its development of cutting-edge AI and that he hoped other AI labs would join OpenAI in that slowdown.
On Tuesday (Sept. 15), it was reported that OpenAI Global Policy Chief Chris Lehane said that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been working together for several weeks to address AI safety issues.
PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster wrote Wednesday that within a day of Amodei’s essay, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman and Elon Musk had each said some version of “he’s right.”
“The scientists who built this technology have the money, the talent and the knowledge to govern it,” Webster wrote. “They’re telling us it’s dangerous, and I believe them.”
