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Why the world needs the US and China to cut an AI safety deal next | AI could become too powerful for human beings to control. The US and China must lead the way in ensuring safe, responsible AI development


AI could become too powerful for human beings to control. The US and China must lead the way in ensuring safe, responsible AI development.

In only a few days, renewed trade talks have resulted in temporary but large reductions of the mutual tariffs that seemed so impregnable just a few weeks ago. This moment demonstrated to the world what experts already knew: despite US-imposed hardware restrictions, Chinese firms are close behind leading US AI companies such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind, and in some aspects even ahead. AGI, which could do a broad range of cognitive tasks at human level, would bring huge opportunities but equally large risks.

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