Posted on 09/18/2026 12:10:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Expectations for a deal that establishes guardrails on AI are low on both sides, which continue to drive a headlong race toward potentially unfathomable intelligence capabilities. Ahead of the meeting, rhetoric from Washington and Beijing has underscored only deepening acrimony and distrust over their rush to dominate the technological frontier.
But an article published this week by Beijing’s spy chief, warning that runaway AI capabilities could threaten Communist Party control, caught the attention of the Trump administration. One U.S. official told The Times that the blunt assessment accurately reflects private thinking inside Xi’s government about the growing risks.
Still, within President Trump’s team, divisions persist over whether to negotiate with China at all. Top U.S. officials doubt whether any agreement could be credibly enforced or verified. Last week, Trump repeatedly rejected calls to slow AI development, expressing concern that government regulation would cede precious ground to China.
And a high-profile U.S. debate over AI safety, kicked off last week by a warning from an AI researcher, prompted a defensive response from Beijing, where a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson accused Washington of “fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition.”
The U.S. approach “will only disrupt the process of global AI governance,” the ministry said,...
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And that, my children, is what the AI "crisis" is all about; a campaign to turn AI control over to a global government.
It’s a crisis for China if we keep throwing everything we have at the technology.
Heard xi had a stroke , any idea how he is doing now ? Or was it all made up in the first place
He’s dead, Jim. 🤡
Putin in a diaper dirty diaper story.
AI is the new ‘Star Wars’ and it will break China like SW broke the Soviets.
I agree with that.
Everything is going the wrong way for China, and AI is really the last straw. I won’t be surprised if China has a civil war.
:)
China is paying US politicians to fight against AI.
AND to weed out 'younger' companies moving up on anthropic... About 30,000 American citizens are killed by steel boxes built in Detroit... and the only thing democrat elites care about with those companies is how much mileage per gallon of gas they get...
It’s now a “crisis”?
What happened to the Climate crisis?
The housing crisis?
The affordability crisis?
The ICE crisis?
Perhaps.
Most Republicans joined Democrats in voting to mandate kill switches and driver observation into new cars built after 2027, so it's wrong to say they only care about MPG.
So, it’s at crisis level now?
We need to ask AI about how to handle this crisis. The all-knowing/super-intelligent overlord will solve this crisis.
I asked AI how it could solve the war in Ukraine. It gave me the opposite answer from what I was expecting. It just said how it was helping the military sides in getting their jobs done more efficiently. Not very helpful, that AI dude.
I doubt AI will break the Chinese bank - for one thing - AI can write it’s own code and needs little supervision in a totalitarian state. It becomes ‘cheap’ in no time. China’s not doing the ‘data center’ freak out like our idiots.
They - China - could win this race.
China winning is a real threat. Chinese AI attacking our computers, AI, analog systems and grids is a million times worse than a few AI agents going rouge.
Oh, now AI is a crisis? When did that happen?
Correct
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