All eyes are on what Trump and Xi might do in response to grim warnings about AI.
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In the face of a grim debate about an AI-fueled apocalypse, both President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are locked in on keeping up the pace of AI progress, not slowing it down.Trump downplayed concerns about AI researchers' warnings that AI could threaten humanity's existence during his visit to Ireland to watch the Irish Open."Whoever wins AI, wins," Trump said from his Doonbeg golf resort."And we can put guard rails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen," he added.Meanwhile, Xi has not directly commented on the AI doom-and-gloom yet. Instead, he said during a BRICS Summit in New Delhi on Sunday that "Global South" countries — developing countries in Asia, Africa, and South America — should work faster to set global AI governance standards."We should take a people-centered approach, develop AI for the positive and for good, and work faster to evolve a consensus-based global AI governance framework, so that new technologies can light the way toward shared prosperity," Xi said in his speech.He also said China would pioneer a BRICS open-source AI community that would support LLM development, host AI seminars, and build an open AI ecosystem.Trump and Xi are scheduled to meet on September 24 at the White House.Pacing the frontierThe leaders' comments come as both OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have called for cooperation between the US and Chinese governments to pace and regulate the development of frontier AI models.
